Disorder in Condensed Matter Physics

PART 1. RANDOM SYSTEMS: structure and dynamics; James A. Krumhansl: From CPA to non-linearity and mesostructure in condensed matter; M.F. Thorpe, W. Jin, & S.D. Mahanti: Vegard's law in random two-dimensional alloys; Frank L. Galeener: Vibrational studies of short - and intermediate - range order in glasses; M. Massot & M. Balkanski: Structure and transport properties in borate glasses; Rafael L. Barrio: Raman scattering from multilayers; R.A. Tahir-Kheli & C.J. Holzhey: Low-frequency protein dynamics and ligand migration: a case of diffusion in fractal geometry?; I.P. Ipatova & V.A. Shchukin: Exactly solvable problem for the polar optical phonon Green's function and the phonodistribution in the vibrational spectrum diffusion region of uniaxial crystal solid solutions; F.L. Castillo-Alverado, G.S. Contreras-Puente, & R.A. Barrio: Raman studies in heavily doped semiconductors; J. Taguena-Martinez, R.A. Barrio, & I. Chambouleyron: Study of tin in amorphous germanium; PART 2. RANDOM SYSTEMS - STATISTICAL PROPERTIES: S.F. Edwards: The ageing of glass; Anita Mehta & S.F. Edwards: A new statistical approach to granular mixtures; D. Weaire: Frothy disputes - the evolution of the structure of two-dimensional froth; P.L. Leath: Percolation models of electrical, mechanical, and superconducting breakdown; R.A. Burston, G.D. Hughes, & C.J. Lambert: Spatial and spectral properties of fractions in percolating structures; PART 3. MAGNETISM AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY: A.R. Mackintosh & J. Jensen: Commensurable spin structures and their excitations; A.B. Harris: Helical spin systems: a progress report; Paul A. Fleury: Spin fluctuations in antiferromagnets and superconductors; Yu. A. Izyumov: Superconductors with degenerate electron states; P. Pfeuty: Magnetic correlations and quantum fluctuations in nearly magnetic heavy fermion compounds; Peter M. Levy & Shufeng Zhang: Anisotropy of Kondo systems arising from mixing; T.A. Costi & A.C. Hewson: A new approach to the calculation of spectra for strongly correlated systems; Norio Kawakemi & Ayao Okjii: Dressed particles in the Hubbard chain; B.R. Djordevic & R. Djordevic: Magnetic impurity in an anisotropic ferromagnet; J.A. Blackman & Kalliopi Trohidou: Superparamagnetism in antiferromagnet particles is a surface phenomenon; PART 4. PHASE TRANSITIONS: Peter Young: Spin glasses; R.A. Cowley: Metastability, random fields, and phase diagrams; L.L. Goncalves: The Ising model in correlated random fields; Timothy Ziman: One-dimensional magnets and conformal invariance; I.D. Paczek & J.B. Parkinson: The _S = 1 quantum spin chain: some exact and numerical results; Stanislas Leibler, Rajiv R.P. Singh, & Michael E. Fisher: Thermodynamic behaviour of two-dimensional vesicles; Michael Swift & Julia Yeomans: Wetting between curved substrates; Per-Anker Lindgard & Teresa Castan: The _t-1/4 universality class: theory and simulation of slow domain growth after quenches to low and finite temperatures; Kimmo Kaski: Molecular dynamics simulations of Si (001): surface reconstruction, melting and epitaxal growth; P.C.W. Holdsworth, M.G. Gingras, & B. Bergersen: Non-separable anisotropic pair potentials: two-dimensional liquid crystals and orientational glasses; M.J. Lea & N.H. March: Melting curves of two- and three- dimensional Wigner electron crystals in a magnetic field; PART 5. QUANTUM OPTICS AND SPECTROSCOPY: Rodney Loudon: Single-and two-particle interference; Joseph L. Birman: Quantum optical properties of the exciton-polariton: new families of excitonic quasi particles; A. Goltzene & C. Schwab: Trends within hydrogenic species: an empirical approach; Selected bibliography; Author index; Subject index.