Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions, 2008 Volume 1: Absorbing Phase Transitions Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Series

1 Introduction. Problems.
2 Survey of Equilibrium Critical Phenomena 2.1 Phase Transitions in Equilibrium Systems 2.2 Scale Invariance and Universality 2.3 Mean-field and Renormalisation Group Methods 2.4 Fluctuation-dissipation Theorem 2.5 From Scale-invariance to Conformal Invariance. Problems.
3 Directed percolation 3.1 Directed Percolation at First Glance 3.2 Directed Percolation as a Stochastic Process 3.3 Lattice Models of Directed Percolation 3.4 Experiments related to Directed Percolation. Problems.
4 Scaling Properties of Absorbing Phase Transitions 4.1 Scaling in the Steady State 4.2 Dynamical Scaling Behaviour 4.3 Methods of Analysis 4.4 Other Critical Properties. Problems.
5 Universality classes different from directed percolation 5.1 Parity-Conserving Universality Class 5.2 Voter Universality Class 5.3 Compact Directed Percolation 5.4 Tricritical Directed Percolation 5.5 Dynamical Percolation 5.6 Long-range Interactions 5.7 Manna Universality Class 5.8 Pair Contact Process with Diffusion 5.9 First-order Phase Transitions 5.10 Crossover Phenomena 5.11 Quenched Disorder. Problems.
Appendices: A Equilibrium Models A.1 Potts model A.2 Clock model A.3 Turban model A.4 Baxter-Wu model A.5 Blume-Capel model A.6 XY model A.7 O(n) model A.8 Double exchange model A.9 Frustrated spin models A.10 Hilhorst-van Leeuven model B Scaling Laws C Diagonalisation of Time-Evolution Operators D Langevin Equations and Path Integrals E Mean-Field Approximations E.1 Simple mean-field/site approximation E.2 Pair-approximation E.3 The ‘hop-away’ mean-field approximation F On Finite-Size Scaling Techniques F.1 Sequences of finite-size estimates F.2 Sequence extrapolation G Numerical Methods G.1 Simulational techniques G.2 Computation of response functions. Solutions. Frequently Used Symbols. Abbreviations. References. Index.

Brings together for the first time the full range of results known for directed percolation, contact processes and their relatives

Uniquely offers a treatment of relaxation phenomena related to ageing

Extensive sample problem sets with detailed solutions provided throughout the book

Can serve as a standard introductory text for beginning graduate students in this field