Static Critical Phenomena in Inhomogeneous Systems: Proceedings of the XX Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics, February 20–March 3, 1984, Karpacz, Poland (Lecture Notes in Physics, 206)

Introduction to the physics of disordered systems....Pages 3-22 Scaling and criticality in dilute systems....Pages 23-38 Dynamic scaling in pure and dilute systems....Pages 39-55 Real space renormalization for fluids and interfaces....Pages 56-79 Spin glasses and the RKKY interaction....Pages 83-97 Phase transitions in inhomogeneous Ising models....Pages 98-112 Static and dynamic properties of short range Ising spin glasses....Pages 113-126 Some mathematical methods for frustration models....Pages 127-134 Pseudo equilibrium description of disordered systems....Pages 137-148 On the validity of the replica method and its application to Ising chain in random field....Pages 149-157 Heisenberg - Ising magnets....Pages 158-165 Surface critical phenomena in systems with a bulk phase transition....Pages 169-190 Interfacial adsorption in multi-state models....Pages 191-209 Electromagnetic scattering in granular media....Pages 210-223 The Anderson transition and the electron-electron interaction....Pages 227-231 Localization of electrons in infinitely long random systems - diagrammatic approach....Pages 232-244 Critical and multicritical points in fluids and magnets....Pages 247-289 Existence of phase transitions in several molecular lattice gases....Pages 290-301 Systems under influence of dichotomous noise....Pages 305-313 The influence of impurities on the spin-lattice relaxation in some uniaxial ferroelectrics....Pages 314-320 Computer studies of magnetic excitations in structurally disordered itinerant-electron ferromagnets....Pages 321-326 Some remarks on the spin fluctuation theories for itinerant electrons....Pages 327-336 Necessary and sufficient conditions for the overblocking effect....Pages 337-343 Experimental results for phase transition in random ferromagnets....Pages 344-348 Domain wall-type excitations in an anisotropic ferromagnet....Pages 349-353 List of Participants....Pages 354-358 Interface roughening in random field models....Pages 359-376