[book] The Random and Fluctuating World

The Random and Fluctuating World
Celebrating Two Decades of Fluctuation and Noise Letters

February 2022 Pages: 640

Edited By: 

P V E McClintock (Lancaster University, UK) and 

L B Kish (Texas A&M University, USA)

DOI: 10.1142/12720 | 

Description: 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:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• Fundamentals of Noise
• Noise in Quantum Systems
• Noise in Complex Systems
• Noise in Biological Systems
• Noise in Materials, Circuitry, Devices and Sensing
• Noise, Computation and Energy Dissipation
• Noise in Finance
• Noise and Security in Communications
• Author Index

Readership: Physicists, chemists, materials scientists, engineers, biologists, medical scientists, IT specialists, social scientists, economists, advanced graduate students.