Encounter With Chaos: Self-Organized Hierarchical Complexity in Semiconductor Experiments

Semiconductors are usually thought of in connection with electronic devices, which exhibit physics of the higher reproducibility. Surprisingly, it was nonequilibrium semiconductor systems and their precision that led the authors of this text to the phenomena of chaos. In the first part of this book they show that chaos is the rule, rather than the result of exotic working conditions, and discuss in detail the representative example of low-temperature impact ionization breakdown in extrinsic semiconductor crystals, which displays several interesting nonlinear phenomena. The final chapter presents the necessary mathematical background. Attention is focused on the interplay between spatial and temporal degrees of freedom, making use of advanced high-resolution experimental techniques and various numerical approaches based on a generalized thermodynamic formalism.

Science & Math

Rössler, Otto E.

Peinke, J.

Parisi, J.

Stoop, R.

Mathematics

Springer, Verlag

Our life is a highly nonlinear process. It starts with birth and ends with death; in between there are a lot of ups and downs. Quite often, we believe that stable and steady situations, probably easy to capture by linearization, are paradisiacal, but already after a short period of everyday routine we usually become bored and seek change, that is, nonlinearities. If we reflect for a while, we notice that our life and our perceptions are mainly determined by nonlinear phenomena, for example, events occurring suddenly and unexpectedly. One may be surprised by how long scientists tried to explain our world by models based on a linear ansatz. Due to the lack of typical nonlinear patterns, although everybody experienced nonlinearities, nobody could classify them and, thus,· study them further. The discoveries of the last few decades have finally provided access to the world of nonlinear phenomena and have initiated a unique inter disciplinary field of research: nonlinear science. In contrast to the general tendency of science to become more branched out and specialized as the result of any progress, nonlinear science has brought together many different disciplines. This has been motivated not only by the immense importance of nonlinearities for science, but also by the wonderful simplicity ohhe concepts. Models like the logistic map can be easily understood by high school students and have brought revolutionary new insights into our scientific under standing.

Physics

Coined by artist and media researcher Bill Seaman, “neosentience” describes a new branch of scientific inquiry related to artificial intelligence. This volume explores the groundbreaking work of Seaman and theoretical physicist Otto E. Rossler in exploring the potential of an intelligent robotic entity possessed of a form of sentience that ever more closely resembles that of a human being. Individual chapters approach the concept from a range of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and the arts. Neosentience is a burgeoning area of interest, and this book encourages readers to reflect on how we experience and interpret the world, how memory works, and what it is to be human.

Neosentience: The Benevolence Engine

Arts & Photography

Seaman, Bill

Photography & Video

Intellect Ltd

Chaos: The World of Nonperiodic Oscillations (Understanding Complex Systems)

Written in the 1980s by one of the fathers of chaos theory, Otto E. Rössler, the manuscript presented in this volume eventually never got published. Almost 40 years later, it remains astonishingly at the forefront of knowledge about chaos theory and many of the examples discussed have never been published elsewhere. The manuscript has now been edited by Christophe Letellier - involved in chaos theory for almost three decades himself, as well as being active in the history of sciences - with a minimum of changes to the original text. Finally released for the benefit of specialists and non-specialists alike, this book is equally interesting from the historical and the scientific points of view: an unconventionally modern approach to chaos theory, it can be read as a classic introduction and short monograph as well as a collection of original insights into advanced topics from this field.

Letellier, Christophe

Reference

Springer

This fascinating book written by Ali Sanayei and Otto E. Rössler is not a classic scientific publication, but a vivid dialogue on science, philosophy and the interdisciplinary intersections of science and technology with biographic elements. Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog about Physics, Complexity and Life represents a discussion between Otto Rössler and his colleague and student, focusing on the different areas of science and highlights their mutual relations. The book's concept of interdisciplinary dialogue is unusual nowadays although it has a long tradition in science. It provides insight not only into interesting topics that are often closely linked, but also into the mind of a prominent scientist in the field of physics, chaos and complexity in general. It allows a deep look into the fascinating process of scientific development and discovery and provides a very interesting background of known and unknown facts in the areas of complex processes in physics, cosmology, biology, brains and systems in general. This book will be valuable to all who are interested in science, its evolution and in an unconventional and original look at various issues. Surely it can serve as an inspiration for students, explaining the often overlooked fact that science and philosophy enrich each other.

Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog about Physics, Complexity and Life (Emergence, Complexity and Computation, 11)

Sanayei, Ali

This fascinating book written by Ali Sanayei and Otto E. Rössler is not a classic scientific publication, but a vivid dialogue on science, philosophy and the interdisciplinary intersections of science and technology with biographic elements. Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog about Physics, Complexity and Life represents a discussion between Otto Rössler and his colleague and student, focusing on the different areas of science and highlights their mutual relations. The book's concept of interdisciplinary dialogue is unusual nowadays although it has a long tradition in science. It provides insight not only into interesting topics that are often closely linked, but also into the mind of a prominent scientist in the field of physics, chaos and complexity in general. It allows a deep look into the fascinating process of scientific development and discovery and provides a very interesting background of known and unknown facts in the areas of complex processes in physics, cosmology, biology, brains and systems in general. This book will be valuable to all who are interested in science, its evolution and in an unconventional and original look at various issues. Surely it can serve as an inspiration for students, explaining the often overlooked fact that science and philosophy enrich each other.

What do yin-yang and the Lorenzian butterfly in chaos have in common? The outside perspective. Only by going very far outside -- beyond the end of the world -- do certain aspects of the world become intelligible. The computer makes it possible today to go after the interface. What does the world look like if you are an internally chaotic part? Is the world just a difference, an interface, a forcing function? Is it possible to identify those features which exist only from the inside? How far does the meta-unmaskability go? Is quantum mechanics a virtual reality? Can the micro-interface be manipulated? Such questions are tackled in this fascinating book.

ENDOPHYSICS: THE WORLD AS AN INTERFACE

World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Chaos, Information, and the Future of Physics: The Seaman-Rossler Dialogue with Information Perspectives by Burgin and Seaman (World Scientific Series in Information Studies, 15)

Burgin, Mark

Seaman, William

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Encounter With Chaos: Self-Organized Hierarchical Complexity in Semiconductor Experiments

Encounter With Chaos: Self-Organized Hierarchical Complexity in Semiconductor Experiments

Neosentience: The Benevolence Engine

Chaos: The World of Nonperiodic Oscillations (Understanding Complex Systems)

Chaos: The World of Nonperiodic Oscillations (Understanding Complex Systems)

Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog about Physics, Complexity and Life (Emergence, Complexity and Computation, 11)

Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog about Physics, Complexity and Life (Emergence, Complexity and Computation, 11)

ENDOPHYSICS: THE WORLD AS AN INTERFACE

Chaos, Information, and the Future of Physics: The Seaman-Rossler Dialogue with Information Perspectives by Burgin and Seaman (World Scientific Series in Information Studies, 15)