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This reprint collects recent articles published on "Light Beams in Liquid Crystals", both research and review contributions, with specific emphasis on liquid crystals in the nematic mesophase. The editors, Prof. Gaetano Assanto (NooEL, University of Rome "Roma Tre") and Prof. Noel F. Smyth (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh), are among the most active experts worldwide in nonlinear optics of nematic liquid crystals, particularly reorientational optical solitons ("nematicons") and other all-optical effects.

Liquid --- crystals --- Beam --- optics --- Solitary --- waves --- Nematicons --- Nonlinear --- Nonlocal --- All-optical --- switching --- Guided --- Geometric --- phase --- Optical --- modulation/switching --- solitons --- Structured --- beams --- Vortices --- self-localization --- spin-orbit --- interactions --- Optics --- of --- anisotropic --- media --- Reorientational --- response --- Thermal

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Systems driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium can create dissipative structures through the spontaneous breaking of symmetries. A particularly fascinating feature of these pattern-forming systems is their tendency to produce spatially confined states. These localized wave packets can exist as propagating entities through space and/or time. Various examples of such systems will be dealt with in this book, including localized states in fluids, chemical reactions on surfaces, neural networks, optical systems, granular systems, population models, and Bose-Einstein condensates.This book should appeal to all physicists, mathematicians and electrical engineers interested in localization in far-from-equilibrium systems. The authors - all recognized experts in their fields - strive to achieve a balance between theoretical and experimental considerations thereby giving an overview of fascinating physical principles, their manifestations in diverse systems, and the novel technical applications on the horizon.

Chemical engineering -- Tables. --- Chemical engineering. --- Chemical reactions. --- Solitons. --- Thermodynamics -- Tables. --- Thermodynamics. --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Atomic Physics --- Solitons --- Fractals. --- Research. --- Mathematical models. --- Fractal geometry --- Fractal sets --- Geometry, Fractal --- Sets, Fractal --- Sets of fractional dimension --- Pulses, Solitary wave --- Solitary wave pulses --- Wave pulses, Solitary --- Physics. --- System theory. --- Quantum optics. --- Amorphous substances. --- Complex fluids. --- Phase transitions (Statistical physics). --- Complex Systems. --- Quantum Optics. --- Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems. --- Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics. --- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. --- Dimension theory (Topology) --- Connections (Mathematics) --- Nonlinear theories --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Statistical physics. --- Mathematical statistics --- Statistical methods --- Dynamical systems. --- Complex liquids --- Fluids, Complex --- Amorphous substances --- Liquids --- Soft condensed matter --- Phase changes (Statistical physics) --- Phase transitions (Statistical physics) --- Phase rule and equilibrium --- Statistical physics --- Optics --- Photons --- Quantum theory --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Statics

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Systems driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium can create dissipative structures through the spontaneous breaking of symmetries. A particularly fascinating feature of these pattern-forming systems is their tendency to produce spatially confined states. These localized wave packets can exist as propagating entities through space and/or time. Various examples of such systems will be dealt with in this book, including localized states in fluids, chemical reactions on surfaces, neural networks, optical systems, granular systems, population models, and Bose-Einstein condensates.This book should appeal to all physicists, mathematicians and electrical engineers interested in localization in far-from-equilibrium systems. The authors - all recognized experts in their fields - strive to achieve a balance between theoretical and experimental considerations thereby giving an overview of fascinating physical principles, their manifestations in diverse systems, and the novel technical applications on the horizon.

Fluid mechanics --- Optics. Quantum optics --- Statistical physics --- Matter physics --- Chemistry of complexes --- complexen (chemie) --- quantumchemie --- theoretische fysica --- materialen (technologie) --- vloeistoffen