RANDOM AND FLUCTUATING WORLD, THE

It is now almost 20 years since the journal Fluctuation and Noise Letters (FNL) was first published hence this book is to commemorate this important milestone. This book consists of 55 reprinted articles from the first 20 years of FNL, together with a short Introduction explaining their context and significance. In selecting the papers, the Editors had taken into account not only citation counts, but guided also by the perceived interest and scientific importance of the work. All selected articles are arranged across eight themes.Contents: AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionFundamentals of NoiseNoise in Quantum SystemsNoise in Complex SystemsNoise in Biological SystemsNoise in Materials, Circuitry, Devices and SensingNoise, Computation and Energy DissipationNoise in FinanceNoise and Security in CommunicationsAuthor IndexReadership: Physicists, chemists, materials scientists, engineers, biologists, medical scientists, IT specialists, social scientists, economists, advanced graduate students.Noise Enhanced Phenomena including Stochastic Resonance;1/F Noise;Shot Noise;Fluctuation-Dissipation;Cardiovascular Dynamics;Ion Channels;Single Molecules;Neural Systems;Quantum Fluctuations;Quantum Computation;Classical and Quantum Information;Statistical Physics;Degradation and Aging Phenomena;Percolation Systems;Fluctuations and Social Systems;Traffic;Stock Market;Environment and Climate0Key Features:The book will reflect the unique features of FNL which is the only journal that focuses on noise and fluctuations over the whole range of science, engineering, social science and financeThere are no comparable or competing titles