Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics: Linear Irreversible Processes (Oxford Graduate Texts) - Hardcover

Pottier, Noëlle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199556881 ISBN 13: 9780199556885

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199556881
• ISBN 13: 9780199556885
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 514
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