Graduate Texts in Physics
Series Editors
Kurt H. Becker, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Jean-Marc Di Meglio, Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Bâtiment Condorcet,
Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
Morten Hjorth-Jensen, Department of Physics, Blindern, University of Oslo, Oslo,
Norway
Bill Munro, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan
William T. Rhodes, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Susan Scott, Australian National University, Acton, Australia
H. Eugene Stanley, Center for Polymer Studies, Physics Department, Boston
University, Boston, MA, USA
Martin Stutzmann, Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University of Munich,
Garching, Germany
Andreas Wipf, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,
Jena, Germany