Fluctuations and Stochastic Phenomena in Condensed Matter [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics Sitges, Barcelona/Spain, May 26–30, 1986 / edited by L. Garrido.

Macroscopic potentials, bifurcations and noise in dissipative systems -- Dynamics of topological defects in first order phase transitions -- An introduction to pattern formation in nonequilibrium systems -- The statistical mechanics of polymer melts and glasses -- On the replica symmetric Ising spin glasses -- Conformal invariance and finite size effects in critical two dimensional statistical models -- Generalized non linear ? - Model and effective landau theory for disordered interacting electron systems -- Relationship between d-dimensional models with langevin dynamics, associated quantum systems and (D+1)-dimensional classical and static models -- Phase transitions and stationary nonequilibrium states -- Quantum mechanical chaos criteria for a kicked top -- Short range spin glasses at low temperatures -- Diffusion in fully developed turbulence a random walk on a fractal structure -- Multifractal wavefunction at the localization threshold -- Effects of screening in liquid crystal polymers -- Localization, quantum interference and transport in disordered solids -- On the computational complexity of composite systems -- Dissipative quantum tunneling.