Description
The articles in this book reflect the omnipresence of diffusion processes in the natural sciences. They describe experimental results as well as theoretical models and computer simulations, and address a wide readership including graduate students. The problems treated stem from physics, astronomy, physical chemistry, biology, and medicine. The papers are presented in a tutorial style and reflect the present-day trends in the field. Selfdiffusion of polymer chains in solutions and melts.- Diffusion on fractal substrates.- Stellar diffusion.- Surface diffusion and lateral interactions in adsorbed layers.- Simple quantum dynamics in presence of topological disorder.- Initially-separated reaction-diffusion systems: theory and experiment.- Anomalous reaction-diffusion systems.- Some aspects of pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems.- Interface bursting and interface depinning.- Criticality of self-avoiding walks in fractal porous media.- Fractals in biology and medicine.- Diffusion of lattice gases in disordered lattices.- Single-ion random walk on a lattice in an attractive coulomb cutoff potential.- A model for the underpotential deposition of metals.- Oxygen diffusion in 123-YBCO.- Gating of voltage-dependent sodium channels in excitable membranes – a continuous process?.- The Schrdinger problem.- Fractal dimension and roughness of profiles and surfaces.- Competition between two kinds of entities in a Diffusion-Limited Aggregration process.- Diffusion models of internal dynamics of proteins.- IV-th max born symposium: Solid state physics I.
