Fluctuations and Stochastic Phenomena in Condensed Matter, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987 Proceedings of the Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, Sitges, Barcelona/Spain, May 26–30, 1986 Lecture Notes in Physics Series, Vol. 268

Macroscopic potentials, bifurcations and noise in dissipative systems.- Dynamics of topological defects in first order phase transitions.- An introduction to pattern formation in nonequilibrium systems.- The statistical mechanics of polymer melts and glasses.- On the replica symmetric Ising spin glasses.- Conformal invariance and finite size effects in critical two dimensional statistical models.- Generalized non linear ? - Model and effective landau theory for disordered interacting electron systems.- Relationship between d-dimensional models with langevin dynamics, associated quantum systems and (D+1)-dimensional classical and static models.- Phase transitions and stationary nonequilibrium states.- Quantum mechanical chaos criteria for a kicked top.- Short range spin glasses at low temperatures.- Diffusion in fully developed turbulence a random walk on a fractal structure.- Multifractal wavefunction at the localization threshold.- Effects of screening in liquid crystal polymers.- Localization, quantum interference and transport in disordered solids.- On the computational complexity of composite systems.- Dissipative quantum tunneling.