Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

NOTE EDITORE

While systems at equilibrium are treated in a unified manner through the partition function formalism, the statistical physics of out-of-equilibrium systems covers a large variety of situations that are often without apparent connection. This book proposes a unified perspective on the whole set of systems near equilibrium: it brings out the profound unity of the laws which govern them and gathers a large number of results usually fragmented in the literature. The reader will find in this book a pedagogical account of the fundamental results: physical origins of irreversibility, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, Boltzmann equation, linear response, Onsager relations, transport phenomena, Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations. The book's comprehensive organisation makes it valuable both as a textbook about irreversible phenomena and as a reference book for researchers.

SOMMARIO

1 - Random variables and random processes2 - Linear thermodynamics of irreversible processes3 - Statistical description of out-of-equilibrium systems4 - Classical systems: reduced distribution functions5 - The Boltzmann equation6 - Transport coefficients7 - From the Boltzmann equation to the hydrodynamic equations8 - The Bloch-Boltzmann theory of electronic transport9 - Master equations10 - Brownian motion: the Langevin equation11 - Brownian motion: the Fokker-Planck equation12 - Linear responses and equilibrium correlations13 - General linear response theory14 - The fluctuation-dissipation theorem15 - Quantum theory of electronic transport16 - Thermal transport coefficients

AUTORE

Noëlle Pottier is Professor of Physics at Université Paris Diderot, `Matière et Systèmes Complexes' (MSC) laboratory.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199556885
• Collana: Oxford Graduate Texts
• Dimensioni: 252 x 30.0 x 177 mm Ø 1141 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 22 b/w line illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 514