Complex Behaviour of Glassy Systems: Proceedings of the XIV Sitges Conference, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 10-14 June 1996 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

Entropy, fragility, "landscapes", and the glass transition.- Computer simulation of models for the structural glass transition.- Microscopic dynamics in glasses in relation to that shown by other complex systems.- Microscopic dynamics of A1C60 compounds.- Dynamics of a supercooled Lennard-Jones Qualitative and quantitative tests of mode-coupling theory.- An ideal glass transition in supercooled water?.- Glass transition in the hard sphere system.- Slow dynamics of glassy systems.- Classical and quantum behavior in mean-field glassy systems.- Complexity as the driving force for glassy transitions.- A solvable model of a glass.- On the long times, large length scale behaviour of disordered systems.- Hexatic glass.- Slow dynamics and aging in spin glasses.- Ultrametric structure of finite dimensional spin glasses.- Entropy crisis in a short range spin glass.- Chiral and spin order in XY spin glass.- A metal-insulator transition as a quantum glass problem.- Quantum spin glasses.- Fermionic quantum spin glass transitions.- Polymer winding numbers and quantum mechanics.- Localized flux lines and the bose glass.- Structural studies of magnetic flux line lattices near critical transitions.- Phase diagram, vortex dynamics and dissipation in thin films and superlattices of 1:2:3 superconducting cuprates.- Monte carlo study of a three-dimensional vortex glass model with screening.- Equilibrium phase transitions in Josephson junction arrays.- An experimentally realizable weiss model for disorder-free glassiness.- Randomly charged polymers.- Copolymer melts in disordered media.- Cross-linked polymer Scaling and exact results.- Magnetic properties of geometrically frustrated systems.- Fractal growth with quenched disorder.- Data clustering and the glassy structures of randomness.- A kinetic description of disorder.