Preface to the Second Edition |
Preface to the First Edition |
Contents |
Historical Background and Introductory Concepts / Chapter 1: |
Brownian Motion / 1.1: |
Einstein's Explanation of the Brownian Movement / 1.2: |
The Langevin Equation / 1.3: |
Calculation of Avogadro's number / 1.3.1: |
Einstein's Method / 1.4: |
Necessary Concepts of Statistical Mechanics / 1.5: |
Ensemble of systems / 1.5.1: |
Phase space / 1.5.2: |
Representative point / 1.5.3: |
Ergodic hypothesis / 1.5.4: |
Calculation of averages / 1.5.5: |
Liouville equation / 1.5.6: |
Reduction of the Liouville equation / 1.5.7: |
Langevin equation for a system with one degree of freedom / 1.5.8: |
Effect of a heat bath. Intuitive derivation of the Klein-Kramers equation / 1.5.9: |
Conditions under which a Maxwellian distribution in the velocities may be deemed to be attained / 1.5.10: |
Very high damping regime / 1.5.11: |
Low damping regime / 1.5.12: |
Probability Theory / 1.6: |
Random variables and probability distributions / 1.6.1: |
Properties of the Gaussian distribution / 1.6.2: |
Moment generating functions / 1.6.3: |
Central Limit Theorem / 1.6.4: |
Random processes / 1.6.5: |
Wiener-Khinchine theorem / 1.6.6: |
Application to the Langevin Equation / 1.7: |
Wiener Process / 1.8: |
Variance of the Wiener process / 1.8.1: |
Wiener integrals / 1.8.2: |
The Fokker-Planck Equation / 1.9: |
Drift and Diffusion Coefficients / 1.10: |
Solution of the One-Dimensional Fokker-Planck Equation / 1.11: |
The Smoluchowski Equation / 1.12: |
Escape of Particles over Potential Barriers - Kramers' Escape Rate Theory / 1.13: |
Escape rate in the IHD limit / 1.13.1: |
Kramers' original calculation of the escape rate for very low damping / 1.13.2: |
Range of validity of the IHD and VLD formulae / 1.13.3: |
Extension of Kramers' theory to many dimensions in the intermediate-to-high damping limit / 1.13.4: |
Langer's treatment of the IHD limit / 1.13.5: |
Kramers' formula as a special case of Langer's formula / 1.13.6: |
Applications of the Theory of Brownian Movement in a Potential / 1.14: |
Rotational Brownian Motion - Application to Dielectric Relaxation / 1.15: |
Breakdown of the Debye theory at high frequencies / 1.15.1: |
Superparamagnetism - Magnetic After-Effect / 1.16: |
Brown's Treatment of Neel Relaxation / 1.17: |
Asymptotic Expressions for the Neel Relaxation Time / 1.18: |
Application of Kramers' method to axially sym-metric potentials of the magneto-crystalline anisotropy / 1.18.1: |
IHD formula for magnetic spins / 1.18.2: |
Ferrofluids / 1.19: |
Depletion Effect in a Biased Bistable Potential / 1.20: |
Stochastic Resonance / 1.21: |
Anomalous Diffusion / 1.22: |
Empirical formulae for [varepsilon]([omega]) / 1.22.1: |
Theoretical justification for anomalous relaxation behaviour / 1.22.2: |
Anomalous dielectric relaxation of an assembly of fixed axis rotators / 1.22.3: |
References |
Langevin Equations and Methods of Solution / Chapter 2: |
Criticisms of the Langevin Equation / 2.1: |
Doob's Interpretation of the Langevin Equation / 2.2: |
Nonlinear Langevin Equation with a Multiplicative Noise Term: Ito and Stratonovich Rules / 2.3: |
Derivation of Differential-Recurrence Relations from the One-Dimensional Langevin Equation / 2.4: |
Nonlinear Langevin Equations in Several Dimensions / 2.5: |
Average of the Multiplicative Noise Term in the Langevin Equation for a Rotator / 2.6: |
Multiplicative noise term for a three-dimensional rotator / 2.6.1: |
Multiplicative noise terms with I taken as zero prior to averaging / 2.6.2: |
Explicit average of the noise induced terms for a planar rotator / 2.6.3: |
Methods of Solution of Differential-Recurrence Relations Arising from the Nonlinear Langevin Equation / 2.7: |
Matrix diagonalisation method / 2.7.1: |
Initial conditions / 2.7.2: |
Matrix continued fraction solution of recurrence equations / 2.7.3: |
Linear Response Theory / 2.8: |
Correlation Time / 2.9: |
Linear Response Theory Results for Systems with Dynamics Governed by One-Dimensional Fokker-Planck equations / 2.10: |
Smallest Nonvanishing Eigenvalue: The Continued Fraction Approach / 2.11: |
Evaluation of [lambda subscript 1] from a scalar three-term recurrence relation / 2.11.1: |
Evaluation of [lambda subscript 1] from a matrix three-term recurrence relation / 2.11.2: |
Effective Eigenvalue / 2.12: |
Evaluation of the Dynamic Susceptibility Using [tau], [tau subscript ef], and [lambda subscript 1] / 2.13: |
Nonlinear Response of a Brownian Particle Subjected to a Strong External Field / 2.14: |
Analytical solutions for the relaxation time of one-dimensional systems / 2.14.1: |
Nonlinear transient response in the rotational Brownian motion / 2.14.2: |
Brownian Motion of a Free Particle and a Harmonic Oscillator / Chapter 3: |
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Theory of the Brownian Motion / 3.1: |
Stationary Solution of the Langevin Equation - The Wiener-Khinchine Theorem / 3.2: |
Brownian Motion of a Harmonic Oscillator / 3.3: |
Application to Dielectric Relaxation / 3.4: |
Theorem about Gaussian random variables / 3.4.1: |
Torsional Oscillator Model: Example of the Use of the Wiener Integral / 3.5: |
Two-Dimensional Rotational Brownian Motion in N-Fold Cosine Potentials / Chapter 4: |
Introduction / 4.1: |
Langevin Equation for Rotation in Two Dimensions / 4.2: |
Longitudinal and Transverse Effective Relaxation Times in the Noninertial Limit / 4.3: |
Polarisabilities and Dielectric Relaxation Times of a Fixed Axis Rotator with Two Equivalent Sites / 4.4: |
Matrix solution / 4.4.1: |
Longitudinal polarisability and relaxation times / 4.4.3: |
Transverse polarisability and relaxation times / 4.4.4: |
Comparison of the Longitudinal Relaxation Time with the Results of the Kramers Theory / 4.5: |
Brownian Motion in a Tilted Cosine Potential: Application to the Josephson Tunnelling Junction / Chapter 5: |
Josephson Junction: Dynamic Model / 5.1: |
Reduction of the Averaged Langevin Equation for the Junction to a Set of Differential-Recurrence Relations / 5.3: |
DC Current-Voltage Characteristics / 5.4: |
Linear Response to an Applied Alternating Current / 5.5: |
Effective Eigenvalues for the Josephson Junction / 5.6: |
Linear Response Using the Effective Eigenvalues / 5.7: |
Spectrum of the Josephson Radiation / 5.8: |
Translational Brownian Motion in a Double-Well Potential / Chapter 6: |
Relaxation Time of the Position Correlation Function / 6.1: |
Comparison of Characteristic Times and Evaluation of the Position Correlation Function / 6.3: |
Three-Dimentional Rotational Brownian Motion in an External Potential: Application to the Theory of Dielectric and Magnetic Relaxation / Chapter 7: |
Rotational Diffusion in an External Potential: The Langevin Equation Approach / 7.1: |
Gilbert's Equation Augmented by a Random Field Term / 7.3: |
Langevin equation approach / 7.3.1: |
Fokker-Planck equation approach / 7.3.2: |
Brownian Rotation in the Uniaxial Potential / 7.4: |
Longitudinal relaxation / 7.4.1: |
Susceptibility and relaxation times / 7.4.2: |
Integral form and asymptotic expansions / 7.4.3: |
Transverse response / 7.4.4: |
Complex susceptibilities / 7.4.5: |
Brownian Rotation in a Uniform DC External Field / 7.5: |
Longitudinal response / 7.5.1: |
Comparison with experimental data / 7.5.3: |
Anisotropic Noninertial Rotational Diffusion of an Asymmetric Top in an External Potential / 7.6: |
Solution of the Euler-Langevin equation for an asymmetric top in the noninertial limit / 7.6.1: |
Linear response of an assembly of asymmetric tops / 7.6.2: |
Response in superimposed ac and strong dc bias fields: perturbation solution / 7.6.3: |
Rotational Brownian Motion in Axially Symmetric Potentials: Matrix Continued Fraction Solutions / Chapter 8: |
Application to the Single Axis Rotator / 8.1: |
Relaxation times / 8.2.1: |
Rotation in Three Dimensions: Longitudinal Response / 8.3: |
Uniaxial particle in an external field / 8.3.1: |
Characteristic times and magnetic susceptibility / 8.3.2: |
Magnetic stochastic resonance / 8.3.3: |
Transverse Response of Uniaxial Particles / 8.4: |
Matrix continued fraction solution / 8.4.1: |
Transverse complex magnetic susceptibility / 8.4.2: |
Nonlinear Transient Responses in Dielectric and Kerr Effect Relaxation / 8.5: |
Nonlinear Dielectric Relaxation of Polar Molecules in a Strong AC Electric Field: Steady State Response / 8.6: |
Dielectric Relaxation and Rotational Brownian Motion in Nematic Liquid Crystals / 8.7: |
Rotational Brownian Motion in Non-Axially Symmetric Potentials / Chapter 9: |
Uniaxial Superparamagnetic Particles in an Oblique Field / 9.1: |
Recurrence equations / 9.2.1: |
Smallest nonvanishing eigenvalue, the relaxation time, and the complex susceptibility / 9.2.2: |
Cubic Anisotropy / 9.3: |
Complex susceptibility and relaxation times / 9.3.1: |
Inertial Langevin Equations: Application to Orientational Relaxation in Liquids / Chapter 10: |
Step-On Solution for Noninertial Rotation about a Fixed Axis / 10.1: |
Inertial Rotation about a Fixed Axis / 10.3: |
Inertial effects and nonlinear response / 10.3.1: |
Inertial Rotational Brownian Motion of a Thin Rod in Space / 10.3.2: |
Derivation of recurrence equations / 10.4.1: |
Evaluation of C[subscript 1] / 10.4.2: |
Evaluation of C[subscript 2] / 10.4.3: |
Evaluation of C[subscript l] for an arbitrary l / 10.4.4: |
Rotational Brownian Motion of a Symmetrical Top / 10.5: |
Evaluation of C[subscript 1] and C[subscript 2] / 10.5.1: |
Itinerant Oscillator Model of Rotational Motion in Liquids / 10.6: |
Generalisation of the Onsager model - Relation to the cage model / 10.6.1: |
Dipole correlation function / 10.6.3: |
Exact solution for the complex susceptibility using matrix continued fractions / 10.6.4: |
Results and comparison with experimental data / 10.6.5: |
Application of the Cage to Ferrofluids / 10.7: |
Statistical Averages of the Hermite Polynomials of the Angular Velocity Components for Linear Molecules / Appendix A: |
Averages of the Angular Velocities Components / Appendix B: |
Evaluation of cos[theta]([varepsilon]) in the Low Damping Limit / Appendix C: |
Sack's Continued Fraction Solution for the Sphere / Appendix D: |
Discrete and Continuous Time Random Walks / Chapter 11: |
A Fractional Diffusion Equation for the Continuous Time Random Walk Model / 11.2: |
Solution of fractional diffusion equations in configuration space / 11.2.1: |
Anomalous diffusion of a planar rotator in a mean field potential / 11.2.2: |
Divergence of Global Characteristic Times in Anomalous Diffusion / 11.3: |
First passage time for normal diffusion / 11.3.1: |
First passage time distribution for anomalous diffusion / 11.3.2: |
Inertial Effects in Anomalous Relaxation / 11.4: |
Slow transport process governed by trapping / 11.4.1: |
Calculation of the complex susceptibility / 11.4.2: |
Comment on the use of the telegraph equation as an approximate description of the configuration space distribution function including inertial effects / 11.4.3: |
Barkai and Silbey's Form of the Fractional Klein-Kramers Equation / 11.5: |
Complex susceptibility / 11.5.1: |
Fractional kinetic equation for the needle model / 11.5.2: |
Anomalous Diffusion in a Periodic Potential / 11.6: |
Calculation of the spectra / 11.6.1: |
Fractional Langevin Equation / 11.7: |
Fractal Dimension, Anomalous Exponents and Random Walks / Appendix: |
Index |