R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events on Thursday, April 24th, 2008
- Rare events and phase transitions in reaction-diffusion systems
- Time: 10:00 am
- Place: 5310 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Alex Kamenev, University of Minnesota
- Abstract: I shall discuss a way to evaluate tails of the probability distribution functions in stochastic reaction-diffusion systems. The method is based on the semi-classical treatment of a proper ''quantum'' field theory, which may be associated with the reaction-diffusion models. The same set of ideas may be applied to a classification of non-equilibrium phase transitions, taking place in these models.
- Host: Vavilov