Stochastic Processes For Physicists

Author : Kurt Jacobs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139486799
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stochastic Processes for Physicists written by Kurt Jacobs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic processes are an essential part of numerous branches of physics, as well as in biology, chemistry, and finance. This textbook provides a solid understanding of stochastic processes and stochastic calculus in physics, without the need for measure theory. In avoiding measure theory, this textbook gives readers the tools necessary to use stochastic methods in research with a minimum of mathematical background. Coverage of the more exotic Levy processes is included, as is a concise account of numerical methods for simulating stochastic systems driven by Gaussian noise. The book concludes with a non-technical introduction to the concepts and jargon of measure-theoretic probability theory. With over 70 exercises, this textbook is an easily accessible introduction to stochastic processes and their applications, as well as methods for numerical simulation, for graduate students and researchers in physics.

Author : Don S. Lemons
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0801876389
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Physics written by Don S. Lemons and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “lucid, masterfully written introduction to an often difficult subject . . . belongs on the bookshelf of every student of statistical physics” (Dr. Brian J. Albright, Applied Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory). This book provides an accessible introduction to stochastic processes in physics and describes the basic mathematical tools of the trade: probability, random walks, and Wiener and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. With an emphasis on applications, it includes end-of-chapter problems. Physicist and author Don S. Lemons builds on Paul Langevin’s seminal 1908 paper “On the Theory of Brownian Motion” and its explanations of classical uncertainty in natural phenomena. Following Langevin’s example, Lemons applies Newton’s second law to a “Brownian particle on which the total force included a random component.” This method builds on Newtonian dynamics and provides an accessible explanation to anyone approaching the subject for the first time. This volume contains the complete text of Paul Langevin’s “On the Theory of Brownian Motion,” translated by Anthony Gythiel.

Author : N.G. Van Kampen
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080571387
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stochastic Processes in Physics and Chemistry written by N.G. Van Kampen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1992-11-20 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Van Kampen's standard work has been completely revised and updated. Three major changes have also been made. The Langevin equation receives more attention in a separate chapter in which non-Gaussian and colored noise are introduced. Another additional chapter contains old and new material on first-passage times and related subjects which lay the foundation for the chapter on unstable systems. Finally a completely new chapter has been written on the quantum mechanical foundations of noise. The references have also been expanded and updated.

Author : Nicola Cufaro Petroni
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030484084
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Probability and Stochastic Processes for Physicists written by Nicola Cufaro Petroni and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to bridge the gap between the parlance, the models, and even the notations used by physicists and those used by mathematicians when it comes to the topic of probability and stochastic processes. The opening four chapters elucidate the basic concepts of probability, including probability spaces and measures, random variables, and limit theorems. Here, the focus is mainly on models and ideas rather than the mathematical tools. The discussion of limit theorems serves as a gateway to extensive coverage of the theory of stochastic processes, including, for example, stationarity and ergodicity, Poisson and Wiener processes and their trajectories, other Markov processes, jump-diffusion processes, stochastic calculus, and stochastic differential equations. All these conceptual tools then converge in a dynamical theory of Brownian motion that compares the Einstein–Smoluchowski and Ornstein–Uhlenbeck approaches, highlighting the most important ideas that finally led to a connection between the Schrödinger equation and diffusion processes along the lines of Nelson’s stochastic mechanics. A series of appendices cover particular details and calculations, and offer concise treatments of particular thought-provoking topics.

Author : Wolfgang Paul
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319003275
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stochastic Processes written by Wolfgang Paul and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the theory of stochastic processes with applications taken from physics and finance. Fundamental concepts like the random walk or Brownian motion but also Levy-stable distributions are discussed. Applications are selected to show the interdisciplinary character of the concepts and methods. In the second edition of the book a discussion of extreme events ranging from their mathematical definition to their importance for financial crashes was included. The exposition of basic notions of probability theory and the Brownian motion problem as well as the relation between conservative diffusion processes and quantum mechanics is expanded. The second edition also enlarges the treatment of financial markets. Beyond a presentation of geometric Brownian motion and the Black-Scholes approach to option pricing as well as the econophysics analysis of the stylized facts of financial markets, an introduction to agent based modeling approaches is given.

Author : Masao Nagasawa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764362089
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stochastic Processes in Quantum Physics written by Masao Nagasawa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the reviews: "The text is almost self-contained and requires only an elementary knowledge of probability theory at the graduate level. The book under review is recommended to mathematicians, physicists and graduate students interested in mathematical physics and stochastic processes. Furthermore, some selected chapters can be used as sub-textbooks for advanced courses on stochastic processes, quantum theory and quantum chemistry." ZAA

Author : Jan A. Freund
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540453962
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stochastic Processes in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology written by Jan A. Freund and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of stochastic processes originally grew out of efforts to describe Brownian motion quantitatively. Today it provides a huge arsenal of methods suitable for analyzing the influence of noise on a wide range of systems. The credit for acquiring all the deep insights and powerful methods is due ma- ly to a handful of physicists and mathematicians: Einstein, Smoluchowski, Langevin, Wiener, Stratonovich, etc. Hence it is no surprise that until - cently the bulk of basic and applied stochastic research was devoted to purely mathematical and physical questions. However, in the last decade we have witnessed an enormous growth of results achieved in other sciences - especially chemistry and biology - based on applying methods of stochastic processes. One reason for this stochastics boom may be that the realization that noise plays a constructive rather than the expected deteriorating role has spread to communities beyond physics. Besides their aesthetic appeal these noise-induced, noise-supported or noise-enhanced effects sometimes offer an explanation for so far open pr- lems (information transmission in the nervous system and information p- cessing in the brain, processes at the cell level, enzymatic reactions, etc.). They may also pave the way to novel technological applications (noise-- hanced reaction rates, noise-induced transport and separation on the na- scale, etc.). Key words to be mentioned in this context are stochastic r- onance, Brownian motors or ratchets, and noise-supported phenomena in excitable systems.

Author : Reinhard Mahnke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527626107
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics of Stochastic Processes written by Reinhard Mahnke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on lectures given by one of the authors with many years of experience in teaching stochastic processes, this textbook is unique in combining basic mathematical and physical theory with numerous simple and sophisticated examples as well as detailed calculations. In addition, applications from different fields are included so as to strengthen the background learned in the first part of the book. With its exercises at the end of each chapter (and solutions only available to lecturers) this book will benefit students and researchers at different educational levels. Solutions manual available for lecturers on www.wiley-vch.de

Author : Zeev Schuss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441916059
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory and Applications of Stochastic Processes written by Zeev Schuss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic processes and diffusion theory are the mathematical underpinnings of many scientific disciplines, including statistical physics, physical chemistry, molecular biophysics, communications theory and many more. Many books, reviews and research articles have been published on this topic, from the purely mathematical to the most practical. This book offers an analytical approach to stochastic processes that are most common in the physical and life sciences, as well as in optimal control and in the theory of filltering of signals from noisy measurements. Its aim is to make probability theory in function space readily accessible to scientists trained in the traditional methods of applied mathematics, such as integral, ordinary, and partial differential equations and asymptotic methods, rather than in probability and measure theory.

Author : Joseph L. McCauley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521763401
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stochastic Calculus and Differential Equations for Physics and Finance written by Joseph L. McCauley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides graduate students and practitioners in physics and economics with a better understanding of stochastic processes.