Fractals, Diffusion, and Relaxation in Disordered Complex Systems, Volume 133, Part A

Yuri Kalmykov is Professor of Physics at the University of Perpignan. Dr. Kalmykov has also been a Visiting Scientist at Trinity College, Dublin, and a Visiting Professor at Queen’s University of Belfast, UK. The area of his research interests is non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, dielectric and Kerr-effect relaxation in gaseous and liquid dielectrics, magnetic relaxation of ferrofluids, relaxation processes in complex systems, etc. Dr. Kalmykov is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, and author of several books and over two hundred research articles that have appeared in numerous scientific journals including the Journal of Chemical Physics, the Physical Review (A, B, and E) and Physical Review Letters.William Coffey has held research positions at the School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and at the University of Salford. He was appointed Lecturer at the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in 1977, elected a Fellow of the College in 1981, and appointed a Professor of Engineering Sciences in 1985. Renowned for his work in the theory of Brownian motion and molecular diffusion Dr. Coffey has been the recipient of numerous honors, including Fellow of the American Physical Society, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Docteur Honoris causa (Université de Perpignan, France). Professor Coffey is the author of many books and more than one hundred and fifty papers. In particular, he is the coauthor of two previous Wiley books, Molecular dynamics (with M. W. Evans, G. J. Evans, and P. Grigolini) and Molecular Diffusion and Spectra (with M. W. Evans and P. Grigolini).

• Chapter 1 Dielectic Relaxation Phenomena in Complex Materials 1By Yuri Feldman, Alexander Puzenko, and Yaroslav RyabovChapter 2 Evolution of the Dynamic Susceptibility in Supercooled Liquids and Glasses 127By Thomas Blochowicz, Alexander Brodin, and Ernst RösslerChapter 3 Slow Relaxation, Anomalous Diffusion, and Aging in Equilibrated Or Nonequilibrated Environments 257By Noëlle PottierChapter 4 Power-law Blinking Quantum Dots: Stochastic And Physical Models 327By Gennady Margolin, Vladimir Protasenko, Masaru Kuno, and Eli BarkaiChapter 5 the Continuous-time Random Walk Versus The Generalized Master Equation 357By Paolo GrigoliniAuthor Index 475Subject Index 513Chapter 6 Fractal Physiology, Complexity, and the Fractional Calculus 1By Bruce J. WestChapter 7 Physical Properties of Fractal Structures 93By Vitaly V. NovikovChapter 8 Fractional Rotational Diffusion and Anomalous Dielectric Relaxation in Dipole Systems 285By William T. Coffey, Yuri P. Kalmykov, and Sergey V. TitovChapter 9 Fundamentals of Lévy Flight Processes 439By Aleksei V. Chechkin, Vsevolod Y. Gonchar, Joseph Klafter, and Ralf MetzlerChapter 10 Dispersion of the Structural Relaxation and The Vitrification of Liquids 497By Kia L. Ngai, Riccardo Casalini, Simone Capaccioli, Marian Paluch, and C.M. RolandChapter 11 Molecular Dynamics in Thin Polymer Films 595By Friedrich Kremer and Anatoli SergheiAuthor Index 633Subject Index 671