NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL PHYSICS by Noelle Pottier ( 9780199556885 )

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NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL PHYSICS
LINEAR IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES

By:

Noelle Pottier

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0199556881

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

17 September, 2009

Series:

Oxford Graduate Texts

Pages:

514

Description:

This book presents a united approach to the statistical physics of systems near equilibrium: it brings out the profound unity of the laws which govern them and gathers together results usually fragmented in the literature. It will be useful both as a textbook about irreversible phenomena and as a reference book for researchers.

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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.

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22 b/w line illustrations

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