Bücher der Reihe Research Reports in Physics

The first volume starts with a historical overview of nonlinear dynamics from Poincare to the present day and touches topics like attractors, nonlinear oscillators and waves, turbulence, pattern formation, and dynamics of structures in nonequilibrium dissipative media.

"High-Tc Superconductivity" is based on a meeting held inKiev and contains contributions discussing the most recentachievements in this field.Keywords: electronic and magnetic properties, metallizationprocesses, emission and optic spectra, lavitation, pinning,frustration and fluctuations, thin films

If there is magnetic ordering in a superconductor at a tempera ture higher than or of the same order as the critical superconducting temperature Tc, then the attraction in the electron pairs will be further increased because the Coulomb repulsion is overwhelmed by fluctuations in the spins forming the long-range anti fer romagnetic order.

Proceedings of an International Conference, held at the Forschungszentrum Julich, Fed.Rep.of Germany, 13-17 May 1991. Organized in Cooperation with OECD-Nuclear Energy Agency, International Atomic Energy Agency

Theoretical and numerical details of an optimized LCAO (linear combination of atomic orbitals) method for the calculation of self-consistent bandstructures are given together with a variety of examples.

Proceedings of the Workshop, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, India, November 29 - December 2, 1989

Since 1972 the Schools on Nonlinear Physics in Gorky have been a meeting place for Soviet Scientists working in this field. They present a good cross section of nonlinear physics in the USSR. It contains sections dealing with nonlinear problems in physics and astrophysics, quantum and solid state physics, dynamical chaos and self-organization.

Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is a state of matter predicted by the theory of strong interactions - Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The area of QGP lies at the interface of particle physics, field theory, nuclear physics and many-body theory, statistical physics, cosmology and astrophysics.

"The Fifth Workshop on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Dynamical Systems took place July 2-16, 1989 in Crete at the Orthodox Academy"--Pref.

Euromech Colloquium No. 241 on Nonlinear Waves in Active Media at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallin, Estonia, USSR, September 27-30, 1988

Since 1972 the Schools on Nonlinear Physics in Gorky have been a meeting place for Soviet scientists working in this field.

Organized by the Kernforschungsanlage Julich, Universitat zu Koeln and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

They open new fields for materials research withion beams. The papers presentedin the book focus on very different aspects ranging from thefield of truly appliedresearch to the field of fundamentalatomic research investigating interaction mechanisms ofslow, highly charged particles with surfaces.

Given the problems of the environment in relation to the ever-growing civi lization activities of man, it is not surprising that in recent years more and more related data have been collected, phenomena have been observed and concerns have been expressed.

This volume contains the lectures presented by invited speakers at the IV La Rlibida International Summer School on Nuclear Physics. The topics treated in the three previous editions of the School were: "Heavy Ion Collisions", "Theory of Nuclear Structure and Reactions" and "Nuclear As trophysics".

This booklet presents a study of one-dimensional waves in solids which can be modelled by nonlinear wave equations of different types.

"Solitons and Chaos" is a response to the growing interestin systems exhibiting these two complementary manifestationsof nonlinearity. An introductory note on eight concepts ofintegrability has been added as a guide for the uninitiatedreader.

Advances in the physics and chemistry of low-dimensional systems have been really magnificent in the last few decades. Examples of quasi-two-dimensional systems are high temperature su perconductors (HTSC) based on copper oxides LA2CU04, YBa2Cu306+y and organic superconductors based on BEDT -TIP molecules.

This book deals with the mechanism of signal transduction in vertebrate and invertebrate photoreceptors. It contains contributions on the structure and function of rhodopsin or other G-coupled receptors, on the regulation of second messengers by enzyme cascade, the role of Ca2+ in light adaptation, control of ionic channels in photoreceptor cells.

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop, 16-26 July 1990, Dubna, USSR

Intensive investigations over subsequent decades have shown, however, that microseisins are only a single facet of a huge complex of phenomena comprising cyclone movement over oceans, sea roughness, infrasound, geomagnetic micropulsations, terrestial of these phenomena proved to be confined in time currents, etc.

Out of the multitude of physical processes whose mechanisms depend on the interaction between the atmosphere and a lake, only those have been selected for discussion in this book which are inevitable in the mathematical modeling of lake hydrology and the microclimates, i.e., the meteorological regime over lakes and surrounding land.

The underlying nonlinear evolution equations (NEEs) are derived giving also their solutions for specific situations. Various dispersion and relaxation laws for different guides are considered as well as the explicit form of projection operators, NEEs, quasi-solitons and of Darboux transforms.