Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

Linear Irreversible Processes
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-955688-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 514 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 1141 g

Reihe: Oxford Graduate Texts

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.

Zielgruppe

Graduate physics students. Junior and senior researchers of solid-state physics, fluid mechanics, plasma physics or celestial mechanics. College and university lecturers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pottier, Noëlle

Fachgebiete

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

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 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

Über Autor(innen)

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