Stanley H. Correlations and Connectivity. Geometric Aspects...1990

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Front Matter
Physics & Geometry: The Theory of Finite Size Scaling
Correlations in Thermal & Geometrical Systems
Damage Spreading: The Ising Model & Spin Glasses
Damage Spreading: The Search for Multifractality & Multiscaling
Lattice Gas Automata
On the Power Laws at the Fractal to Euclidean Crossover
Dynamics of Interface Growth: Numerical Solution of a Continuum Equation
Growth Models for Rough Surfaces with Correlated Noise
The Physics of Powders
Space-Filling Bearings
Vortex-Antivortex Pairing of Holes in Frustrated XY Spin Systems
Front Matter
Relaxation, Glass Formation, Nucleation, & Rupture in Normal and “Water-Like” Liquids at Low Temperatures and/or Negative Pressures
The Arrhenius Law versus the Vogel Law
Liquid Water: Theory & Experiment
Hydrogen-Bond Structures in Water & Ice
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Water
Dynamics of the Hydrogen Bond Network in Simulated Liquid Water
Dynamics of Confined Water
Molecules and Microstructures
Phase Transitions & Pattern Formation in Monolayers
Front Matter
Gelation Transition versus Percolation Theory
Emergence of Biological Function in the Framework of a Percolation Model
Hydration, Protons, & Onset of Biological Function: A Percolation Approach
Anhydrous Biology & Glass Transitions
Protein Hydration, Protonic Percolation, and Connectivity
Heterochrony as a Generalizable Principle in Biological Dynamics
Front Matter
Breath Figures
Defects in Lamellar Phases of Amphiphile-Water Systems
Spatial & Temporal Correlations in Surface Reactions
Quantitative Experiments & Theoretical Aspects in Electrodeposition without a Supporting Electrolyte
Properties of the Growth Probability Distribution of DLA in a Cylindrical Geometry
Fixed Scale Transformation Approach to Fractal Growth in Three Dimensions
Multifractal Spectra of Large Scale Oil-Reservoir Properties
Universally Correlated Scale-Invariant Sidebranching in Propagation of a Two-Dimensional Cracking Growth
Elasticity of Rigid Networks
Geometrical Properties of Clusters, Percolation Transitions, & the Ising Singularity
A Lattice Boltzmann Scheme for the Burger Equation
Scaling in Apollonian Gaskets
Screening in Liquid Water
Back Matter