Fluctuations, Instabilities, and Phase Transitions (Nato Science Series B:)

Phase Transition and An Introduction.- Spinodal Decomposition.- Clustering and Spinodal Decomposition in Cu-Ni Alloys.- Dynamics of First Order Phase Transitions.- Phase Separation Experiments near the Critical Point.- Stochastic Models of Crystal Growth.- Effects of Quantum Fluctuations of First Order Phase Transitions.- Thermal Diffusion and Barodiffusion Measurements near a Consolute Critical Point.- Inelastic Neutron Scattering Studies of Al and Pb near Their Melting Points.- A Survey of Hydrodynamic Instabilities.- The Rayleigh-Benard Instability at Helium Temperatures.- Critical Exponents and Generalized Potential for the Taylor Instability.- Pretransitional Effects in the Rayleigh-Benard Instability.- Macroscopic Theory of Fluctuations and Instabilities in Optics and Hydrodynamics.- Mode-Mode Coupling Theory of the Heat Convection Threshold.- Instabilities in Nematic Liquid Crystals.- Neutron Scattering Study of Transitions to Convection and Turbulence in Nematic Para-Azoxyanisole (PAA).- Rayleigh-Benard Experimental Findings Obtained by Light Scattering and Other Optical Methods.- Dissipative Structures and Their Mechanism of Onset.- List of Participants.