Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology: Proceedings of the 7th Interdisciplinary Workshop Held at Dijon, France, 46 June 1991 Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991 [Pehme köide]

Equations of motion for vortices in 2-D easy-plane magnets.- Central
peak signatures from vortices in 2D easy-plane antiferromagnets.- Free
vortices in the quasi-two dimensional XY antiferromagnet BaNl2(PO4)2?.- The
electric resistivity of a magnetic semiconductor with easy-axis of anisotropy
populated by magnon solitons.- Thermodynamics of quantum spin chains.-
Dissipative superluminous Brillouin solitons in an optical-fiber ring
cavity.- Polarisation fluctuations in nonlinear optical fibres.- Stochastic
dynamics of spatial solitons on the periodic interface of two nonlinear
media.- Conversion of ultrashort optical solitons in the fibre-optical loop.-
Dynamics of breather modes in a nonlinear helicoidal model of DNA.-
Equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of a nonlinear model of
DNA.- A simple model of DNA dynamics.- Anomalous vibrational modes in
acetanilide: a F.D.S. incoherent inelastic neutron scattering study.-
Nonlinear excitations in a quantum dimer.- Kinks in disordered conjugated
polymers.- A discrete selftrapping equation model for Scheibe aggregates.-
Computer simulation of cardiac arrhythmias and of defibrillating electric
shocks. Effects of antiarrhythmic drugs.- Numerical studies of solitons on
lattices.- A symplectic solder for lattice equations.- Solitary wave
solutions to the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation.- Asymptotic
bi-soliton in diatomic chains.- Nonlinear dynamics of localized structures
and proton transfer in a hydrogen-bonded chain model including dipole
interactions.- Resonant states in the propagation of waves in a periodic,
non-linear medium.- GAP solitons in 1D asymmetric physical systems.- Evidence
of energy diffusion in pure anharmonic disordered chains.- A numerical
venture into the menagerie of coherentstructures of a generalized Boussinesq
equation.- Self-organization and nonlinear dynamics with spatially coherent
structures.- Modulational instability and two-dimensional dynamical
structures.- Competitive interactions and 2-D structures at finite
temperatures.- Interactions of solitons in (2+1) dimensions.- Spiral waves in
excitable media.- Kadomtsev-Petviashvili and (2+1)-dimensional burgers
equations in the Bénard problem.- Non-linearity and coherence in models of
superconductivity.- Chaotic polaronic and bipolaronic states in coupled
electron-phonon systems.- Chaotic motion of solitons in the PDE model of long
Josephson junctions.- Nonlinear structure of phase motion from the study of
differential equations near resonant tori.- Noise induced bifurcations in
simple nonlinear models.- Coherent behaviour of single degrees of freedom in
an order-to-chaos transition.- Dissipation in Quantum Field Theory.-
Coherence and Quantum Groups.- Exact periodic solutions for a class of
multispeed discrete Boltzmann models.- Collective coordinates by a
variational approach: Problems for sine Gordon and ?4 models.- Exact solution
of the perturbed sine-Gordon breather problem.- Numerical results concerning
the generalized Zakharov system.- Resonances in nonlinear Klein-Gordon kink
scattering by impurities.- Resonant kink-impurity interactions.- Localized
self-similar structures for a coupled nls equation: An approximate analysis.-
Searching for solitons with a direct binary operator method.- The inverse
problem of dynamics for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation. Pulsons and
bubbles in the models with logarithmic nonlinearities.