Universality In Nonequilibrium Lattice Systems

The book helps the reader to navigate in the zoo of basic models and classes that were investigated in the past decades, using field theoretical formalism and topological diagrams of phase spaces. Based on a review in Rev. Mod. Phys. by the author, it incorporates surface growth classes, classes of spin models, percolation and multi-component system classes as well as damage spreading transitions. (The success of that review can be quantified by the more than one hundred independent citations of that paper since 2004.)

The extensions in this book include new topics like local scale invariance, tricritical points, phase space topologies, nonperturbative renormalization group results and disordered systems that are discussed in more detail. This book also aims to be more pedagogical, providing more background and derivation of results. Topological phase space diagrams introduced by Kamenev (Physical Review E 2006) very recently are used as a guide for one-component, reaction-diffusion systems.

Contents: Out of Equilibrium Classes; Genuine Basic Nonequilibrium Classes with Fluctuating Ordered States; Genuine Basic Nonequilibrium Classes with Absorbing State; Scaling at First-Order Phase Transitions; Universality Classes of Multi-Component Systems; Surface-Interface Growth Classes.

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