Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics (eBook)

Linear Irreversible Processes

Noelle Pottier (Autor)

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2009
514 Seiten
OUP Oxford (Verlag)
978-0-19-157427-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 together 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 organization makes it valuable both as a textbook about irreversible phenomena and as a reference book for researchers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• ISBN-10: 0-19-157427-9 / 0191574279
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-157427-6 / 9780191574276