Pierre Gaspard (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

The Statistical Mechanics of Irreversible Phenomena

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive and self-contained overview of recent progress in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, in particular, the discovery of fluctuation relations and other time-reversal symmetry relations. Essential reading for researchers and graduate students in statistical physics, theoretical chemistry and biological physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1442g
• ISBN-13: 9781108473729
• ISBN-10: 1108473725
• Artikelnr.: 63761828

Autorenporträt

Pierre Gaspard is a Professor in Physics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems. He is the author of the book, Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and has published over 200 related papers in the fields of statistical physics, nonlinear physics and chemical physics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Thermodynamics
2. Statistical mechanics
3. Hydrodynamics
4. Stochastic processes
5. Fluctuation relations for energy and particle fluxes
6. Path probabilities, temporal disorder, and irreversibility
7. Driven Brownian particles and related systems
8. Effusion processes
9. Processes in dilute and rarefied gases
10. Fluctuating chemohydrodynamics
11. Reactions
12. Active processes
13. Transport in Hamiltonian dynamical models
14. Quantum statistical mechanics
15. Transport in open quantum systems
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
References: Index.