NOISE IN PHYSICAL SYSTEMS AND 1/f FLUCTUATION

Edited by Peter H. Handel and Alma L. Chung, University of Missouri, St. Louis

READERSHIP: Researchers in acoustic systems, condensed matter scientists and engineers; biophysicists and bioengineering scientists.

Fundamental aspects of noise and fluctuations in physical and biological systems, as well as in nature, are the subject of this volume. It provides a bridge linking theorists and applied scientists involved in the design of new electronic devices such as superconductors, lasers, and masers. This work focuses on noise in these devices and in other areas, including precision measurements and biological rhythms. It also examines the concept of stochastic resonance as it applies to the nervous system and to heterodyning.

CONTENTS: Plenary lectures. Film conductors and semiconductors. Metals and magnetics. Superconductors. Liquid conductors. Quantum 1/f noise. Semiconductor devices. MOSFET. Optical devices and others. Lasers. Quantum systems. Random processes and stochastic systems. Chaos and fractal. Miscellaneous 1/f fluctuations. Models and simulation of 1/f fluctuations. Statistical physics of noise in semiconductor materials. Membranes and cells. Cardiovascular systems. Biological systems. Neuronal networks.

1994, 1-56396-270-5, hardcover, 776 pp., illus., $185.00