Physics of Stochastic Processes
How Randomness Acts in Time
1. Edition November 2008
XVII, 430 Pages, Softcover
148 Pictures
6 tables
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Based on lectures given by one of the experienced authors, this textbook is unique in combining basic mathematical and physical theory with numerous examples as well as detailed calculations. With end-of-chapter exercises (and solutions only available to lecturers).
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Based on lectures given by one of the authors with many years of experience in teaching stochastic processes, this textbook is unique in combining basic mathematical and physical theory with numerous simple and sophisticated examples as well as detailed calculations.
In addition, applications from different fields are included so as to strengthen the background learned in the first part of the book. With its exercises at the end of each chapter (and solutions only available to lecturers) this book will benefit students and researchers at different educational levels.
Solutions manual available for lecturers on www.wiley-vch.de
Multidimensional Approach
The Master Equation
The Fokker-Planck Equation
The Langevin Equation
One-Dimensional Diffusion
Bounded Drift-Diffusion Motion
The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process
Nucleation in Supersaturated Vapors
Vehicular Traffic
Noise-Induced Phase Transitions
Many-Particle Systems
Jevgenijs Kaupu's graduated from the Department of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Latvia in Riga. In 1995, he received his Ph.D. degree for a thesis entitled "Role of fluctuations in the phase transition region". Since 1997, he has been working at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia, where he was a senior researcher from 2003 to 2005. Today he holds a post as associated professor at the Liepaja Pedagogical Academy, Latvia. The main topics of his work are phase transitions and critical phenomena, traffic flow theory and ferroelectrics. Professor Kaupu's is the author of more than 70 scientific publications.
Ihor Lubashevsky received his Ph.D. from the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology in 1980. In 1993, he became assistant professor at Moscow State University. Four years later, he accepted a post as leading staff scientist at the theory department of the A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. He also is chair and professor at the Department for the Modelling of Radio- Physical Processes, Moscow Technical University of Radio- Engineering, Electronics and Automation. Professor Lubashevsky's research experience spans over statistical physics, in particular non-equilibrium many particle systems.
