Katja Lindenberg

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 0340
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0340
Phone: (858) 534-3285
FAX: (858) 534-7244
klindenberg@ucsd.edu
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Description of our Research

We are interested in understanding the origin, nature and consequences of the interactions of physical systems with their environment. These questions are particularly challenging when the systems are non-linear and/or their interactions with the enviroment are strong.

The contexts in which we ask these questions are extremely varied, and our approaches eclectic. We are interested in the equilibirum and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of nonlinear classical and quantum systems. We deal with a variety of phenomenological stochastic models in which nonlinearity and fluctuations coexist and this coexistence leads to interesting phenomena that would not arise but for the complex interplay. We deal with reaction-diffusion systems and associated pattern formation problems. We are interested in signal propagation in nonlinear thermal arrays, in the Kramers problem of chemical reaction rates, in resonant activation phenomena, in noise induced phase transitions.

We are strictly theoreticians: our methods are analytical and numerical.

The best way to get a more detailed idea about our work is to look at our recent PUBLICATIONS