Further reading

Here we offer further material and bibliographic references, with a special focus on pedagogical ones. If you find broken links, please let us know with a mail to nespbook (at) gmail.com

• Brownian particles - A paper to explain how to simulate the motion of a free Brownian particle or in an harmonic or double-well potential: G. Volpe and G. Volpe, Simulation of a Brownian particle in an optical trap, Am. J. Phys. 81, 224 (2013).
• Disordered systems - A brief history of the Harris criterion are the slides of a talk given by A. B. Harris in 2007 when he was awarded the Lars Onsager Prize of the American Physical Society.
• Granular materials - Granular fluids, a short walkthrough are the notes by Andrea Puglisi for a Ph.D course given at the La Sapienza University. He has also published a short book, Transport and Fluctuations in Granular Fluids. An introductory and complete book (in french) is Les milieux granulaires - Entre fluid et solide, by Bruno Andreotti, Yoël Forterre and Olivier Pouliquen. The table of contents and the first pages of the book are available here.
• Edwards-Wilkinson universality class - A paper, specially addressed to students and teachers: A. Santini and P. Politi, Learning universality and scaling from simple deposition models, Am. J. Phys. 86, 616 (2018).