On Three Levels Micro-, Meso-, and Macro-Approaches in Physics

This volume contains the proceedings of a five-day NATO Advanced Research Workshop "On Three Levels, the mathematical physics of micro-, meso-, and macro­ phenomena," conducted from July 19 to 23 in Leuven, Belgium. The main purpose of the workshop was to bring together and to confront whe...

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Other Authors: Fannes, Mark (Editor), Maes, Christan (Editor), Verbeure, Andre (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
Series:NATO Science Series B:, Physics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Perturbations of quantum canonical relations and Q-independence
  • The spectrum of the spin-boson model
  • Some results on the projected two-dimensional Ising model
  • The second virial coefficient for quantum-mechanical sticky spheres
  • Bethe-Ansatz solution of a modified SU(3)-XXZ model
  • The quantum mean field state as a limit of canonical states: Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics
  • Multifractal properties of discrete stochastic mappings
  • Gibbs states of the Chern-Simons charged particle system in the mean-field type limit
  • Rigorous Bethe Ansatz for the nonlinear Schrodinger model
  • Flat nonregular states on Weyl algebras
  • Second virial coefficient for one-dimensional systems
  • Self-adjointness and the existence of deterministic trajectories in quantum theory
  • An application of the Maes-Shlosman constructive criteria
  • Brownian trapping with grouped traps
  • Local thermodynamic equilibrium and continuous media: A programme
  • Stochastically forced Burgers equation
  • Glauber evolution for Kac potentials. Analysis of critical fluctuations: convergence to a nonlinear stochastic PDE
  • Local structure of interfaces in a Kawasaki + Glauber particle model
  • Quantum chaos, fractal spectra and atomic stabilization
  • Statistical properties of random banded matrices: Analytical results
  • On the Wulff construction as a problem of equivalence of statistical ensembles
  • Scaling profiles of a spreading drop from Langevin or Monte-Carlo dynamics
  • Rigorous calculation of collective excitations in a mean field model
  • The fluid-dynamical limit for the BBGKY hierarchy of a discrete velocity model
  • Isospectral deformation of discrete random Laplacians
  • Scattering and the role of operators in Bohmian mechanics
  • Towards the Euclidean formulation of quantum statistical mechanics
  • Large deviations in the spherical model
  • Entropy density and the split property
  • Gibbsian versus non-Gibbsian measures: some results and some questions in renormalization group theory and stochastic dynamics
  • Stabilities and instabilities in classical lattice gas models without periodic ground states
  • One-dimensional anomaly of the Fermi surface
  • Quantum fluctuation limit: Examples from solid state physics
  • Large deviations and the thermodynamic formalism: A new proof of the equivalence of ensembles
  • Finitely correlated pure states
  • Stationary states of Hamiltonian systems with noise
  • Stochastic regularization of coherent-state path integrals and quantum Hall effect
  • An ADE- O classification of minimal incompressible quantum Hall fluids
  • Simple random walks: New developments
  • Symmmetry breaking and long range order in Heisenberg antiferromagnets
  • Integrable s = 1/2 quantum spin chains with short-range exchange
  • Who is afraid of Griffiths’ singularities?
  • Microspectral properties of crystals and their band structure
  • Stochastic model of a quantum diffusion-reaction process
  • Crystalisation of itinerant electrons
  • Molecular chain: dynamical variables, quantization and statistical mechanics
  • Quasiparticle’s spin and fractional statistics in the fractional quantum Hall effect
  • Participants
  • Quantum kinetic equations
  • Microscopic derivation of hydrodynamics with phase transition in a plasma model
  • Ferromagnetism in itinerant electron systems: rigorous examples from flat-band Hubbard models
  • Homogeneity in the ground state of the two-dimensional Falicov-Kimball model
  • Diffusive limit of the asymmetric simple exclusion: The Navier-Stokes correction
  • Weak coupling limit: Feynman diagrams
  • Limit laws for recurrence times in expanding maps of an interval
  • Stochastic geometric aspects of some quantum spin chains
  • The two species totally asymmetric simple exclusion process
  • How to reconstruct a heat bath
  • Interacting particle systems on non-commutative spaces
  • Non-self-averaging effects in sums of random variables, spin glasses, random maps and random walks
  • Quantum adiabatic evolution
  • Semi-classical inelastic S-matrix for one-dimensional N-states systems