Nonlinearity with Disorder

In the past three decades there has been enormous progress
in identifying   the essential role that nonlinearity plays
in physical systems, including   supporting soliton-like
solutions and self-trapped sxcitations such as         polarons.
during the same period, similarly impressive progress                  has
occurred in understanding the effects of disorder in linear
quantum problems, especially regarding Anderson localization
arising from               impurities, random spatial structures,
stochastic applied fields, and so      forth.
These striking consequences of disorder, noise and
nonlinearity   frequently occur together in physical systems.
Yet there have been only      limited attempts to develop
systematic techniques which can include all of   these
ingredients, which may reinforce, complement or frustrate
each      other. This book contains a range of articles which
provide important steps toward the goal of systematic
understanding and classification of               phenomenology.
Experts from Australia, Europe, Japan, USA, and the               USSR
describe both mathematical and numerical techniques -
especially   from soliton and statistical physics disciplines
- and applicaations to a   number of important physical
systems and devices, including optical and      electronic
transmission lines, liquid crystals, biophysics                           and
magnetism.