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 nearequilibrium: it brings out the profound unity of the laws which govern them and gathers a large number of results usually fragmented in the literature. Thereader 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 itvaluable both as a textbook about irreversible phenomena and as a reference book for researchers. INDICE: 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: Masterequations 10: Brownian motion: the Langevin equation 11: Brownian motion: theFokker-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.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-955688-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 491
- Fecha Publicación: 17/09/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés