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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 63)
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Many mesoscopic systems display `adaptive' behaviour - changes in some physical property that results from a small change in an internal or external driving force. There is a kind of progression in adaptive phenomena, from quantum mesoscopics to complex, evolved cooperative systems and large scale events like turbulence. The field of mesoscopic magnetism, especially quantum coherence and quantum tunnelling in spin systems, and the coupling between mesoscopic magnetism and mesoscopic transport is currently a very active area of solid state physics. `Dephasing' is an important concept in mesoscopic systems like these. A basic question is the limit at which quantum mechanics breaks down and what it can be replaced with. Another interesting crossover is that between complexity and large excursions or events, with turbulence as a prototype example. The book also contains a discussion of finance. Qualitatively speaking, turbulence and financial markets are apparently similar, so our understanding of turbulence may be relevant to understanding price fluctuations.
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Front Matter
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Book Title: Complexity from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales: Coherence and Large Deviations
Editors: A. T. Skjeltorp, T. Vicsek
Series Title: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0419-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0634-0Published: 31 May 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0419-0Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1568-2609
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 230
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Physics, Classical and Continuum Physics, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials