Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

Linear Irreversible Processes

AvNoëlle Pottier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-09-17
Mått:177 x 252 x 30 mm
Vikt:1 141 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Graduate Texts
Antal sidor:514
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199556885

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

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Its strength no doubt lies in showing how a large variety of subjects close to experimental interest are connected to a basis of fundamental statistical physics... This looks like an excellent book that is likely to keep its value when fashion changes.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Random variables and random processes ; 2. Linear thermodynamics of irreversible processes ; 3. Statistical description of out-of-equilibrium systems ; 4. Classical systems: reduced distribution functions ; 5. The Boltzmann equation ; 6. Transport coefficients ; 7. From the Boltzmann equation to the hydrodynamic equations ; 8. The Bloch-Boltzmann theory of electronic transport ; 9. Master equations ; 10. Brownian motion: the Langevin equation ; 11. Brownian motion: the Fokker-Planck equation ; 12. Linear responses and equilibrium correlations ; 13. General linear response theory ; 14. The fluctuation-dissipation theorem ; 15. Quantum theory of electronic transport ; 16. Thermal transport coefficients