Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

Linear Irreversible Processes
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-871227-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 868 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pottier, Noëlle

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Kontinuumsmechanik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Statistische Physik, Dynamische Systeme
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Kontinuumsmechanik, Strömungslehre
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Plasmaphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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 model

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Graduate from École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1969.
Ph.D. Thesis in Solid State Physics, University of Paris, 1970.
1969: Assistant Professor (maître de conférences), University Paris Diderot.
1988: Associate Professor (professeur de seconde classe), University Paris Diderot.
1993: Full professor (première classe), University Paris Diderot.
2006-present: Full professor (classe exceptionnelle), University Paris Diderot.