Microscopic Aspects of Nonlinearity in Condensed Matter: NATO Science Series B:, cartea 264

I. Complexity and Chaos.- Space Time Complexity in Quantum Optics.- Critical Phenomena in Hamiltonian Chaos.- Statistical Properties of the Transition to Spatiotemporal Chaos.- Time Evolution of Random Cellular Patterns.- Defects and Order to Disorder Transition in Non-Equilibrium Structures.- From Chaos to Quasicrystals.- A Model of a Catalytic Reaction with Local Interactions.- Chaos in the Driven Damped Pendulum Studied by a Non-Equilibrium — to — Equilibrium Mapping.- II. Coherent Structures.- Bipolaronic Charge Density Waves.- Polarons in Quasi-One-Dimensional Materials.- Solitons in Charge Density Wave Crystals.- Hydrodynamics of Classical and Quantum Liquid with Free Surface.- Collective Transport in Charge and Spin Density Waves.- Propagating Compression Waves in a Damped ac-Driven Chain of Kinks.- Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains.- Dynamic Maps and Attractor Phase-Structures in Randomly Dilute Neural Networks.- Solitons and Twistons in Conducting Polymers.- On the Motion of Vortex Pairs in the Anisotropic Heisenberg Model.- III. Physics of Quantum Devices.- Oscillations Due to Many-Body Effects in Resonant Tunneling.- Computer Simulation of Tunneling in Atomic-Size Devices.- Quantum Ballistic Transport.- Few Remarks about Small Capacitance Josephson Junctions.- Dynamics of Tunneling Systems in Metals.- Analytical Dynamics of Modulated Systems.- Study of the Continuous Spectrum of Semiconductor Heterostructures.- IV. Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics.- Raman Scattering of Light by Electrons in Superconductors with a Small Correlation Length.- Quantum Solitons on Quantum Chaos: Coherent Structures, Anyons and Statistical Mechanics.- Stark Effect for Difference Schrödinger Operator.- Double Peak Structure in the Density of States of a Kondo Lattice.- LowTemperature Analysis of Microemulsion Model.- Quantum Monte Carlo Computation of Static and Time-Dependent Thermodynamic Properties of Lennard-Jones Crystals.- Exact Free Energy of a KSSH Model in d-Dimensions.- Nonlinear Properties of the BCS Gap Equation.- Results of Mode Coupling Theory for the Paramagnetic and Critical Spin Fluctuations in Heisenberg Magnets.- Quantum Thermodynamics of an Anharmonic N-N Chain.- Spectrum of the Fermi-Linearized Extended Hubbard Model on a Dimer.- Localized Excitations in 1-D Peierls-Hubbard Models of Polyacetylene and MX Chains.- Microscopic Spin Wave Study of the Co/Cu(100) Epitaxial Monolayer.- Dynamic Scaling in the Two-Dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnet.- Contributors.