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

Pottier, Noelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198712278 ISBN 13: 9780198712275

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0198712278
• ISBN 13: 9780198712275
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 491