Disorder and Matter

Part I. Disordered materials

Disordered crystals and alloys. Quasicrystals. Glasses and amorphous solids. Electrons in         disordered systems. Anderson localization.

Part II.Complex systems

Dynamical systems and chaos. Fractals. Percolation. Complexity. Self-organized criticality.     Pattern formation.

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