Time-Dependent Effects in Disordered Materials

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Aggregation and Crystal Growth....Pages 1-17
Role of Fluctuations in Fluid Mechanics and Dendritic Solidification....Pages 19-43
The Growth of Fractal Aggregates....Pages 45-70
Colloidal Flow....Pages 71-87
The Microworld of Electrodeposition....Pages 89-92
DLA with Short-Range Interactions....Pages 93-96
Effect of Rotational Diffusion on Quasi-Elastic Light Scattering from Fractal Clusters....Pages 97-101
Theory of Dielectric Breakdown in Metal-Loaded Dielectrics....Pages 103-106
Fractal Interpretation of Dielectric Response....Pages 107-110
Dynamics and Structure of Viscous Fingers in Porous Media....Pages 111-138
Viscous Fingering Instabilities in Porous Media....Pages 139-143
Multifractals....Pages 145-161
Multifractality on Percolation Clusters....Pages 163-171
Multifractals: Formalism and Experiments....Pages 173-183
On Multifractals: Thermodynamics and Critical Exponents....Pages 185-193
On the Characterization of Chaotic Systems Using Multifractals....Pages 195-198
Viscous Fingering on Percolation Clusters....Pages 199-208
Self-Avoiding Walks Between Terminals on Percolation Clusters....Pages 209-212
Diffusion on Percolation Clusters....Pages 213-216
Fluctuation and Dissipation on Fractals: A Probabilistic Approach....Pages 217-218
Time-Dependent Effects Near the Percolation Threshold in Water-in-Oil Microemulsions....Pages 219-223
Tracer Dispersion: A New Characteristic Length Scale Measurement in Heterogeneous Porous Media....Pages 225-228
Relaxation in the Random Energy Model....Pages 229-232
Scaling Theories for Anomalous Dynamics on Fractals: Fractons....Pages 233-241
Fracton Interpretation of Thermal Conductivity of Amorphous Materials....Pages 243-249
Fracton Excitation in Silica Smoke-Particle Aggregates....Pages 251-254
Evidence for Phonon-Fracton Crossover in Silica Aerogels by Brillouin-Scattering Measurements....Pages 255-258
Critical Behavior of Elastic Stiffness Moduli in a Random Network of Rigid and Nonrigid Bonds....Pages 259-262
1/f Noise in Random Systems: Recent Progress....Pages 263-278
The Glass Transition of Polymers....Pages 279-295
Time Dependent Nonlinear Response of a Dipolar Glass....Pages 297-300
Slow Relaxation of Organic Low Temperature Glasses....Pages 301-304
Spin Dynamics in Dilute Systems....Pages 305-315
Spin Glass Theory....Pages 317-329
Graph Partitioning as a Spin Glass Problem....Pages 331-337
Random Lattice Impurities in the Zero-Density Limit....Pages 339-341
Glassy Relaxation in Charge Density Wave Systems....Pages 343-357
Neural Networks and Statistical Mechanics....Pages 359-364
Comparison of Domain Growth Kinetics in Two and Three Dimensions....Pages 365-382
Metastability and Instability in an Orientational Glass....Pages 383-386
Recent Theoretical Developments in the Kinetics of First Order Phase Transitions....Pages 387-411
A Neutron Scattering Study of the Kinetics of Phase Separation in Mn 1−x Cu x ....Pages 413-416
On Dense Branching Phase Separation....Pages 417-420
Crystallization Kinetics of Metallic Glasses Co 78−x Fe x Si 9 B 13 Probed by Electrical Resistivity and Magnetization....Pages 421-423
Polymer Dynamics and Gelation....Pages 425-449
Optical Investigations of Aggregation Process in Aqueous Noble Metal Colloid Systems....Pages 451-456
Pattern Formation in Lipid Membranes....Pages 457-464
Direct Spectroscopy of Microemulsion Droplet Fluctuations....Pages 465-469
Renormalization Group Results for Random Resistor Networks....Pages 471-480
Hamiltonian Formulation for the Conformation and Resistance of Random Walks....Pages 481-486
Resonant Scattering and Classical Localization....Pages 487-490
Quantum Percolation: Meaning and Results....Pages 491-494
Back Matter....Pages 495-504