An Introduction to Disorder: Entropy, Information, and Morphologies
暫譯: 混亂入門：熵、資訊與形態學
McGurn, Arthur
- 出版商: CRC
- 出版日期: 2026-09-03
- 售價: $4,400
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,180
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 420
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 1032669810
- ISBN-13: 9781032669816
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相關分類:
物理學 Physics
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商品描述
Disorder is everywhere - in alloys, in thermal fluctuations, and in the amorphous structures of glasses. Understanding it is essential to understanding real materials. This book offers an introduction to the physics of disordered systems, from their foundations in entropy and statistical mechanics to modern applications in information and quantum information theory.
It begins discussing the generation and use of random numbers, Monte Carlo and quantum Monte Carlo methods, and impurity effects ranging from single-atom substitutions to large-scale defects such as dislocations and grain boundaries. Entropy is explored as a unifying concept linking statistical mechanics, information theory, and quantum information, including Shannon and von Neumann entropies and quantum entanglement.
Further chapters examine amorphous materials, glasses and spin glasses, Anderson localization and metal-insulator transitions, as well as fractals and chaotic dynamics. It concludes with the impact of disorder on critical phenomena.
Designed for advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students, this book serves as a comprehensive entry point into the study of disorder. It provides a solid conceptual foundation while pointing readers to key research literature for deeper exploration, making it both an accessible textbook and a valuable reference for future study. Throughout, the mathematics is kept as simple as possible, with more advanced methods introduced only when needed.
Key features:
- Presents a basic introduction for advanced undergraduate and first year graduate students in physics and engineering, both theoretical and experimental.
- Covers topics of the most interest to researchers in nanotechnology, material science, statistical physics, information theory, and quantum information theory.
- Explores the variety of different types of disorder which are found in physical systems.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
無序現象無處不在——在合金中、在熱波動中，以及在玻璃的非晶結構中。理解無序現象對於理解真實材料至關重要。本書提供了無序系統物理學的入門介紹，從熵和統計力學的基礎到在信息和量子信息理論中的現代應用。
本書首先討論隨機數的生成和使用、蒙地卡羅（Monte Carlo）及量子蒙地卡羅（quantum Monte Carlo）方法，以及從單原子替代到大規模缺陷（如位錯和晶界）的雜質效應。熵被探討作為一個統一的概念，將統計力學、信息理論和量子信息聯繫起來，包括香農熵（Shannon entropy）和馮·諾依曼熵（von Neumann entropy）以及量子糾纏。
後續章節考察非晶材料、玻璃和自旋玻璃、安德森局域化（Anderson localization）和金屬-絕緣體轉變，以及分形和混沌動力學。最後，探討無序對臨界現象的影響。
本書旨在為高年級本科生和一年級研究生提供一個全面的無序研究入門點。它提供了堅實的概念基礎，同時指引讀者參考關鍵研究文獻以進行更深入的探索，使其既是一部易於理解的教科書，也是一個未來研究的寶貴參考資料。在整個過程中，數學保持盡可能簡單，只有在必要時才引入更高級的方法。
主要特點：
- 為高年級本科生和一年級研究生提供基礎介紹，涵蓋理論和實驗物理及工程。
- 涵蓋納米技術、材料科學、統計物理、信息理論和量子信息理論中最受研究者關注的主題。
- 探索物理系統中存在的各種不同類型的無序現象。
作者簡介
Professor Emeritus Arthur R. McGurn, CPhys, FInstP, is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America), a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, and an Outstanding Referee for the journals of the American Physical Society. He earned his PhD in Physics in 1975 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, followed by postdoctoral studies at Temple University, Michigan State University, and George Washington University (NASA Langley Research Center). Prof. McGurn's research interests include the theory of magnetism in disorder materials, electron conductivity, the properties of phonons, ferroelectrics and their nonlinear dynamics, Anderson localization, amorphous materials, the scattering of light from disordered media and rough surfaces, the properties of speckle correlations of light, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, the dynamical properties of nonlinear systems, photonic crystals, and meta-materials. He has over 150 publications spread amongst these various topics. He has taught physics for 38 years at Western Michigan University where he is currently a Professor Emeritus of Physics and a WMU Distinguished Faculty Scholar. A number of PhD students have graduated from Western Michigan University under his supervision.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
榮譽教授亞瑟·R·麥克根（Arthur R. McGurn），CPhys，FInstP，是物理學會的會士、美國物理學會的會士、Optica（前身為美國光學學會）的會士、電磁學學院的會士，以及美國物理學會期刊的傑出審稿人。他於1975年在加州大學聖巴巴拉分校獲得物理學博士學位，隨後在天普大學、密歇根州立大學和喬治華盛頓大學（NASA朗利研究中心）進行博士後研究。麥克根教授的研究興趣包括無序材料中的磁性理論、電子導電性、聲子特性、鐵電材料及其非線性動力學、安德森局域化、非晶材料、光在無序介質和粗糙表面上的散射、光的斑點相關性特性、量子光學、非線性光學、非線性系統的動態特性、光子晶體和超材料。他在這些不同主題上發表了超過150篇論文。他在西密歇根大學教授物理學已有38年，目前是物理學榮譽教授及WMU傑出教學學者。在他的指導下，已有多位博士生從西密歇根大學畢業。
