Relaxation in Complex Systems and Related Topics

Abstract

Relaxation and Dynamics in Magnetic Systems.- Experiments on Spin Glass Dynamics.- Attempt at a Comprehensive Description of the Slow Spin Glass Dynamics.- Spin-Glass Dynamics in the Two-Dimensional Ising System Rb2Cu1?xCoxF4.- Cluster Model for Non-Equilibrium Relaxation in Spin Glasses.- Some Aspects of the Dynamics of Random Anisotropy Systems.- Static and Dynamic Properties of Fine Magnetic Particles.- Kinetic Aspects of Magnetic Relaxation in Amorphous Ferromagnetic Alloys.- Dynamic Crossover in Dipolar Ferromagnets.- Magnetic Excitations in the Disordered System Mg1?xCoxCl2.- Dynamic Properties of Critical and Paramagnetic Spin Fluctuations in Simple Magnets: Confrontation of Experimental and Theoretical Findings.- Relaxation and Dynamics in Superconductors.- Thermally Activated Flux Motion in High-Tc-Superconductors.- Flux Motion in Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2O8+x Single Crystals.- Relaxation of the Vortex Lattice in Type II Superconductors.- Investigation of the Relaxation Behaviour in High Tc Superconductors.- Relaxation Experiments in Short Coherence Length Superconductors.- Quasi-Equilibrium Dynamics and Non-Debye Relaxation in High Tc Granular Superconductors.- Relaxation and Dynamics in Granular Superconductors and Superconducting Arrays.- Numerical Simulation of the Magnetic Relaxation in Superconducting Systems.- Noise Measurements in dc-SQUIDs Based on Nb-Nbox-PbAuIn Josephson Junctions.- The Resistive Transition of Inhomogeneous Superconductors: Effects of Mild Granularity, Dimensionality, Gaussian Fluctuations and Critical Behaviour.- Relaxation and Dynamics in Molecular and Biological Systems.- Comparison of Spin Glass Relaxation and Energy Transport at Dynamic Percolation.- Stretched-Exponential Relaxation of Electric Birefringence in Critical Systems and Colloidal Solutions.- The Glass Transition of Hard Spherical Colloids.- Structural Relaxation and Dynamics of Water in Disordered MX-RH2O Systems.- Glassy Dynamics and Relaxation in Proteins.- Models for Relaxation in Glasses and Protein Channels.- Information Classification Acquired by Organization of Neuronic Connections.- Long-Term Behavior of Neural Networks.- Information Storage and Relaxation in Biological Systems.- Relaxation and Dynamics in Other Complex Systems.- Dynamical Properties of Hierarchical Polymeric Cluster Solutions.- Critical Scaling in Glassy Glasses.- Flow in Granular Materials: Self-Organized Non-Critical Behavior.- Non-Exponential Thermal Relaxation and Low-Energy Excitations in CDW Compounds.- Non-Debye-Like Dielectric Relaxation in Ionically and Electronically Conducting Glasses.- Anelastic Relaxation due to Interacting Point Defects.- Complexity and Chaos in Thermal Convection.- About the Fractal Relationship Between Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts Decay, Cole-Cole and Davidson-Cole Relaxations.- Polarization Decay in Glass-Forming and Ferroelectric Perovskites.- General Theoretical Aspects of Relaxation in Complex Systems.- Localization as a Mechanism for the Transition to Anomalous Relaxation.- Complexity of Hierarchical Relaxation.- Probability Density of Random Walks on Random Fractals: Stretched Gaussians and Multifractal Features.- The Symmetric and Fully Distributed Solution to a Generalized Dining Philosophers Problem: An Analogue of the Coupling Theory of Relaxations in Complex Correlated Systems.- Onsager-Machlup Functions for Ising Networks.- Simple Models for Complex Relaxation.- to the Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Fluid Dynamics.- Author Index.