Statistical Physics: Experiments, Theories, and Computer Simulations : Proceedings of the 2nd Tohwa University International Meeting, Fukuda Minerva Hall, Fukuoka, Japan,

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Pub. Date: 1998-06-01
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Summary

Compilation of papers presented at the 2nd Tohwa University International Meeting on Statistical Physics in Fukuoka, Japan in 1997 the main purpose of which was to provide an opportunity for an international group of experimentalists, theoreticians, & computational scientists from various fields to further develop statistical physics.

Table of Contents

Preface xvii(1)
Organization of Meeting xviii(1)
Group Photograph xix
I. COMPLEX FLUIDS 3(80)
Entropy Barriers in Granular Flow and Glass Formation
3(3)
I. Oppenheim
Slow Dynamics of Heterogeneous Structure and Density Fluctuations in a Supercooled Colloidal Fluid
6(4)
M. Tokuyama
Y. Enomoto
I. Oppenheim
Hard Sphere Crystallization by Sedimentation
10(4)
B. Ackerson
Crystallization and Metastability of Binary Fluids
14(4)
W. van Megen
S. I. Henderson
S. R. Williams
I. K. Snook
Structural Heterogeneity in Supercooled Liquids and Glasses
18(4)
Y. Hiwatari
T. Muranaka
Resolving the Collective Relaxation Dynamics in a Supercooled Binary Mixture
22(4)
D. N. Perera
P. Harrowell
Nonlinear Rheology of Highly Supercooled Liquids
26(4)
A. Onuki
R. Yamamoto
Slow Dynamics in the Two Dimensional Densely Frustrated XY Models: A Model Structural Glass-Former
30(3)
B. Kim
S. J. Lee
Phase Transition in Block Copolymers: Effects of Random Thermal Noise
33(4)
T. Hashimoto
Ta. Koga
Ts. Koga
Exactly Solved Lattice Models: From Polymer Networks to an Ising Model in a Magnetic Field
37(4)
M. T. Batchelor
Long-Range Correlations in Sedimentation
41(4)
P. N. Segre
E. Herbolzheimer
P. M. Chaikin
Thermal Convection in Freely Suspended Liquid Films
45(4)
X.-L. Wu
B. Martin
Viscoelastic Behavior of Bimodal Suspensions
49(1)
T. Shikata
H. Niwa
Y. Morishima
Dynamic Coupling Between Fluctuation Modes in the Mixture of Two Complex Fluids Systems
50(1)
J. Yamamoto
H. Tanaka
Anomalous Cross-Link Density Dependence of Scattering from Charged Gels
51(1)
M. Shibayama
F. Ikkai
Scattering Profiles and Diffusion of Weakly Charged Polyelectrolyte Gels
52(1)
Y. Shiwa
Dynamical Correlations in a Two Dimensional Binary Mixture
53(1)
D. Perera
P. Harrowell
Supercooled Fluids of Soft Spheres with and without Bonds
54(1)
T. Muranaka
Y. Hiwatari
Free Energy Calculation for Di-Block Copolymer with MD Engine
55(1)
H. Shimizu
K. Uehara
Y. Hiwatari
Anomalies in Raman Spectra of Gel and the Dried Substance
56(1)
K. Hara
A. Nakamura
N. Hiramatsu
Drawing of Egg White Glass
57(1)
N. Hiramatsu
A. Nakamura
M. Sugiyama
K. Hara
Y. Maeda
Surface Wave Properties of Colloidal Gels near the Gelation Points
58(1)
H. Okabe
K. Kuboyama
K. Hara
S. Kai
Influence of Particle Charge Number on the Order-Disorder Transition in Electrostatically Stabilized Colloidal Dispersions
59(1)
J. Yamanaka
Ta. Koga
H. Yoshida
N. Ise
T. Hashimoto
Density Waves of Granular Particles in a Vertical Pipe
60(1)
O. Moriyama
N. Kuroiwa
M. Kanda
M. Matsushita
Structure Formation in Annealing and Subsequent Cooling Induced Gelation of Xanthan/Water Systems
61(1)
T. Yoshida
M. Takahashi
T. Iwanami
R. Tanaka
T. Hatakeyama
H. Hatakeyama
Critical Dynamics and Pseudo-Critical Relaxation in a Nonionic Micellar Solution
62(1)
Y. Nojiri
Y. Harada
Dynamics of Glass Transition of Deuterated Ethylene Glycol
63(1)
G. Matsui
S. Kojima
S. Itoh
Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability of Langmuir Monolayers
64(1)
S. Komura
T. Iwayama
A New Model of Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence
65(1)
K. Yasui
Mean Field Theory of Nematic Liquid Crystals
66(1)
H. Kimura
Phase Separations Induced by Partial Ordering of Semiflexible Polymers
67(1)
A. Matsuyama
Ta. Kato
Structural Relaxation in Supercooled Binary Mixtures
68(1)
Y. Kaneko
J. Bosse
Liquid Crystalline Phases of Arbitrary Point Group Symmetry with the Inversion Centre
69(1)
K. W. Wojciechowski
Theory on the Shape Change of Tubular Membranes by Optical Tweezers
70(1)
Y. Suezaki
H. Ichinose
M. Takefu
Levy Walks Model of Slow Dynamics
71(1)
M. Mizuno
K. Nakamura
Phase Diagram of Surfactant-Water System
72(1)
Y. Terada
H. Maeda
T. Odagaki
Molecular-Dynamics Analysis of the Fast Process in Supercooled Liquids
73(1)
J. Matsui
T. Odagaki
Particle Diffusion on the Way Toward Gaussian Process in Classical Liquid
74(1)
K. Itagaki
H. Yamada
M. Goda
A Numerical Study of Rheology of Two-Component Viscoelastic Fluid
75(1)
T. Okuzono
Computer Simulation Study of Dense Hard Sphere Colloids
76(1)
I. Moriguchi
Monte Carlo Simulation on the Polarization Reversal of Ferroelectric Polymer
77(1)
T. Koda
Y. Morito
S. Ikeda
Shear-Induced Instability of Lamellar Phase of Block Copolymers
78(1)
H. Kodama
J. L. Harden
M. Doi
Computer Simulation on the Phase Separation Process in a Homopolymer/Homopolymer/Random Copolymer Ternary Mixture
79(1)
M. Takenaka
T. Hashimoto
Brownian Dynamics of Hard-Sphere Colloidal Suspensions
80(3)
R. Kato
Y. Enomoto
M. Tokuyama
II. GENERAL METHODS OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS 83(36)
Universal Finite-Size Scaling Functions: Some Recent Developments
83(4)
C.-K. Hu
Enhanced Optical Nonlinearity in Granular Materials
87(4)
K. W. Yu
Glass Behavior of the Two-Dimensional XY Gauge Glass
91(4)
M. Y. Choi
Quantum Damped Harmonic Oscillator and Susceptibility for Identical Atoms in an External Force with a Tail
95(3)
C. I. Um
I. H. Kim
K. H. Yeon
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Multi-Component Fluids
98(4)
K. Miyazaki
K. Kitahara
D. Bedeaux
Spectra and Partition Function of the Asymmetric XXZ Chain
102(4)
D. Kim
Exact Analysis of Quantum Fluctuations by the Mori Formula
106(1)
I. Sawada
Isotropic Systems of Negative Poisson Ratios
107(1)
K. W. Wojciechowski
A Unified System of Quantum Stochastic Differential Equations Within Non-Equilibrium Thermo Field Dynamics
108(1)
T. Arimitsu
Quantum Scattering Theoretical Description of Thermodynamical Responses
109(1)
T. Taniguchi
A Fokker-Planck Equation for a Delayed Stochastic Equation
110(1)
T. Ohira
Hierarchy of Configurations of Vortices of Supercurrents and the Energies in a Josephson-Junction Array in a Transverse Magnetic Field
111(1)
H. Mitani
Y. Noguchi
A. Sanui
Coherent States and Uncertainty Relations of the Time-Dependent Quadratic Hamiltonian with Linear Terms
112(1)
C. I. Um
I. H. Kim
K. H. Yeon
S. J. Lee
Quantum Equivalence of the Several Hamiltonian Types for Damped Harmonic Oscillator
113(1)
C. I. Um
I. H. Kim
K. H. Yeon
M. Tokuyama
An Analysis of Bunraku Puppet Actions Based on Kubo, Mori, Miyoshi, Okabe's Langevin Equations
114(1)
M. Hattori
M. Tsuji
S. Tadokoro
T. Takamori
Capillary Wave Approach to Relaxation Process of the Vicinal Surface and its Application to Analysis of the Surface Stiffness
115(1)
T. Yamamoto
Critical Exponents of the Excitation Gap and the Energy Gain of the Spin-Peierls System with Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interactions
116(3)
K. Okamoto
T. Nakamura
III. STRUCTURE AND PATTERNS 119(44)
Surfactant Driven Fingering Instability
119(4)
C. K. Chan
Phase Equilibria of Multicomponent Polymer Solution
123(4)
T. Dobashi
M. Nakata
Critical Behavior in Surface Fracture Induced by a Frictional Substrate
127(4)
K.-T. Leung
Resonance Phenomena in a Stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley Neuron
131(4)
S. Kim
S. G. Lee
Pattern Formation in Bacterial Colonies and Its Modelling
135(4)
M. Matsushita
J. Wakita
H. Itoh
I. Rafols
T. Matsuyama
H. Sakaguchi
M. Mimura
Theoretical Aspects of Nanostructured Materials in Two Dimensions
139(1)
Y. Yamazaki
R-C. Liu
V. Alyoshin
I. Krasilnikov
J. Krasilnikova
Evolution of Off-Phase Variants with Local Compositional Variations in L1(2) Ordering Alloys
140(1)
R. Oguma
T.G. Eguchi
Segregation of Granular Materials in a Rotating Tube
141(1)
K. Ueda
R. Kobayashi
T. Yanagita
Metastable Behavior of Three-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials by Means of Monte Carlo
142(1)
Y. Yamazaki
I.O. Krasilnikov
V.A. Alyoshin
J.O. Krasilnikova
Modulated Patterns in Nematic Thin Layers under a Hybrid Boundary Condition
143(1)
H. Toyoki
Dynamics of Phase Separation for Off-Critical Quenches
144(1)
Ts. Koga
T. Hashimoto
Fundamental Properties of Nanostructured Materials in Two Dimensions by Means of Monte Carlo
145(1)
Y. Yamazaki
J. O. Krasilnikova
V. A. Alyoshin
I. O. Krasilnikov
Experimental Study of Concentric Ring Patterns in Bacterial Colonies
146(1)
I. Rafols
J. Wakita
H. Itoh
T. Matsuyama
M. Matsushita
Two-Dimensional Pattern Formation and Localized Convection State in Rayleigh Benard Convection in Binary Fluid Mixtures
147(1)
A. Ogawa
R. Ito
A. Tanizaki
Y. Harada
Experimental Measurement of Branching Distribution in Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
148(1)
T. Oka
H. Honjo
S. Ohta
Ordered Fractals on n-Polytopes
149(1)
Y. Yamauchi
Analysis of Spin-Polarization of Magnetic Material by s-d Model
150(1)
S. Kondo
M. Hasaka
T. Morimura
Surface Growth of Binary Eden Model on Square Lattice
151(1)
H. Takano
T. Nagamine
H. Yoshinaga
S. Miyazima
Entropy Spectrum of Self-Affine Fractal Curves
152(1)
H. Katsuragi
H. Honjo
S. Ohta
Domain Size Distribution Function for the 1D Bloch Wall Dynamics
153(1)
H. Tutu
Growth Pattern of Reconstructed Structure on Quenched Si(111) Surface
154(1)
To. Kato
Y. Saigo
M. Uchibe
H. Tochihara
W. Shimada
Domain Growth in Copolymer-Homopolymer Mixtures
155(1)
A. Ito
A Skeleton Structure for Self-Replication Dynamics
156(1)
Y. Nishiura
D. Ueyama
Growth Properties in Eden Model with Accerelation Effect
157(1)
H. Yoshinaga
T. Nagamine
H. Takano
S. Miyazima
Modeling and Characterization of Cloud Dynamics
158(1)
T. Yanagita
Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulation with Polydisperse System
159(1)
H. Komatsugawa
S. Nose
Glassy Relaxation in the Two Dimensional Coulomb Gas with Irrational Charges
160(3)
S. J. Lee
B. Kim
J.-R. Lee
IV. CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PHYSICS 163(46)
Pulse Dynamics Far from Equilibrium
163(4)
T. Ohta
Numerical Simulations on Maxwell's Demon
167(4)
S. Sasa
T. Hatano
Theory of Stochastic Dynamics in Finite Random Media with an Oscillatory Boundary Condition
171(4)
T. Odagaki
M. Kawasaki
M. Caceres
H. Matsuda
Some Interesting Analytical and Numerical Results on Traffic Models
175(4)
H. F. Chau
Granular Microhydrodynamics: Emergence of f-(4/3) Law
179(4)
H. Hayakawa
Metastable Phenomena in Rare Earth Nitrate Crystals
183(1)
R. Kawashima
H. Isoda
Time Resolved Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Study on Gel-Dehydration Processes of Heat- and Pressure- Treated Egg White
184(1)
H. Kanaya
K. Hara
A. Nakamura
N. Hiramatsu
E. Takushi
Thermal Unfolding and Sol-Gel Transition in Yeast Cytochrome C
185(1)
Y. Miura
I. Nagatomo
S. Oda
H. Sakashita
Thermal Unfolding of Ribonuclease A and Ribonuclease S-Protein
186(1)
H. Sakashita
Y. Miura
S. Oda
Thermal Transition from Molten Globule State in Alpha-Lactalbumin
187(1)
I. Nagatomo
Y. Miura
H. Sakashita
Thermal Instability in Ubiquitin at pH6 and pH2
188(1)
Y. Miura
H. Sakashita
Phenomenology of Dielectric Relaxation
189(1)
K. Miyazaki
K. Seki
Chaotic Itinerary on One-Dimensional Fractal Map
190(1)
Y. Nagai
Y. Aizawa
A Stochastic Model for Dipole Relaxation
191(1)
K. Seki
K. Miyazaki
C. Uchiyama
Theoretical Study of Boundary Perturbation Method for Transport Process in a Random Medium
192(1)
M. Kawasaki
T. Odagaki
Frictional Phenomena in an Incommensurate Lattice System
193(1)
T. Kawaguchi
H. Matsukawa
The Retarded Density- and Current-Response Functions for 2-Dimensional Electron Gas in a Uniform External Magnetic Field
194(1)
M. Okada
T. Toyoda
Exact Relations for Matsubara Green's Functions for an Electron Gas in a Uniform Electric Field
195(1)
H. Koizumi
T. Toyoda
Evanescent Modes and Impurity Scattering in Nano-Scale Corbino Disks
196(1)
S. Souma
A. Suzuki
Computer Modeling of Fungal Colony with Nutrient Redistribution
197(1)
S. Matsuura
Traffic Flow Simulator Based on Optimal Velocity Function
198(1)
M. Kikuchi
S. Sugiyama
S. Tadaki
S. Yukawa
The Linking Probability of Ring Polymers with Excluded Volume
199(1)
K. Tsurusaki
T. Deguchi
Non-Universal Critical Exponent of the Diffusion Coefficient for the Soft-Percolation Process
200(1)
Y. Hara
T. Odagaki
Riemann Scalar Curvature of Ideal Quantum Gases Obeying Gentile Statistics
201(1)
H. Oshima
T. Obata
H. Hara
Simulation of Vesicle Morphology with an Encapsulation
202(1)
R. Morikawa
Y. Saito
H. Hyuga
The Interaction of Ultra-Short Pulse Intense Laser with Solid Density Plasma
203(1)
Y. Ueshima
Y. Kishimoto
Y. Sentoku
K. Nishihara
T. Tajima
Search for Energy Minimum in Chaotic Brownian Network
204(1)
T. Shimizu
The Biham-Middleton-Levine Traffic Model in Various Spatial Dimensions: A Numerical Study
205(1)
K. Y. Wan
H. F. Chau
Dynamics of Biological Cell Pattern Formation
206(3)
T. Nagai
H. Honda
V. CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM CHAOS 209(26)
The Kawasaki and Transient Time Correlation Function Response Theories for Non-Autonomous Systems
209(4)
J. Petravic
D. J. Evans
Rayleigh-Benard Convective Turbulence with Modified Boundaries
213(4)
K.-Q. Xia
Chaos and Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems
217(4)
K. Nakamura
S. Kawabata
Zeros of the Fredholm Determinant Appearing in Boundary Element Method for Quantum Billiards
221(1)
T. Harayama
S. Tasaki
A. Shudo
Chaos and Energy Transport Phenomena in 1D Plasma Sheet Model
222(1)
T. Yanagisawa
New Noise-Induced State Transition in Quantum Kicked Rotator
223(1)
N. Suda
A Topological Investigation of Chaotic Systems
224(1)
T. Motoike
T. Arimitsu
Hierarchical Structure and Stagnant Motions in Hamiltonian Systems with Many Degrees of Freedom
225(1)
Y. Y. Yamaguchi
T. Konishi
On Characteristic Properties of High-Dimensional Symplectic Mappings in Terms of Separatrix Splitting
226(1)
Y. Hirata
T. Konishi
Lyapunov Exponent of Lorentz Gas with Magnetic Field by use Boltzmann Equation
227(1)
M. Kumagai
K. Nakamura
Anomalous Diffusion and Quantum Interference Effect in Nano-Scale Periodic Lorentz Gas
228(1)
S. Kawabata
Dynamical Transition in One-Dimensional Lennard-Jones System
229(1)
H. Yamada
T. Okabe
A Sequence of Windows with Period Adding in a Nonlinear System
230(1)
H. Igarashi
T. Shimizu
Chaos Synchronization on Inhomogeneous Systems
231(4)
D. Katsuragi
VI. APPENDIX 235(6)
Polymeric Microemulsions: Statics and Dynamics
235(1)
G. H. Fredrickson
Phase Transitions in Latex Particles Dispersed in a Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Medium
236(1)
A. K. Sood
V. A. Raghunathan
P. Richetti
D. Roux
F. Nallet
New Scenario for Transition to Turbulence in Degenerate Systems
237(1)
M. I. Tribelsky
Numerical Examination of the Surface Magnetization in Thin Films using the SAW Model
238(1)
T. Ishinabe
N. Oizumi
Superionic Transition Mechanism by Microscopic Description
239(1)
A. Rakitin
M. Kobayashi
The Order Parameter in the Two-Dimensional Metallic Glass System and Its Relaxation
240(1)
I. Kanazawa
Author Index 241

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