Nonequilibrium statistical physics : linear irreversible processes
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Nonequilibrium statistical physics : linear irreversible processes
（Oxford graduate texts）
Oxford University Press, 2010 [i.e. 2009?]
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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