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Description of  Quantum Statistics in Optics and Solid State Physics: Statistical Theory of Instabilities in Stationary Nonequilibrium Systems With Applications to ... (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics Vol 66)

Hardcover: 173 pages Publisher: Springer 1 edition (April 30, 1973) Language: English ISBN-10: 3540061894 ISBN-13: 978-3540061892 The transition of a macroscopic system from a disordered, chaotic state to an ordered more regular state is a very general phenomenon as is testified by the abundance of highly ordered macroscopic systems in nature. These transitions are of special interest, if the change in order is structural, i.e. connected with a change in the symmetry of the system's state.