The Statistical Mechanics of Irreversible Phenomena
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The Statistical Mechanics of Irreversible Phenomena

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The Statistical Mechanics of Irreversible Phenomena

About this book

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. The significance of these advances is that nonequilibrium statistical physics is no longer restricted to the linear regimes close to equilibrium, but extends to fully nonlinear regimes. These important new results have inspired the development of a unifying framework for describing both the microscopic dynamics of collections of particles, and the macroscopic hydrodynamics and thermodynamics of matter itself. The book discusses the significance of this theoretical framework in relation to a broad range of nonequilibrium processes, from the nanoscale to the macroscale, and is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in statistical physics, theoretical chemistry and biological physics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Thermodynamics
  9. 2 Statistical Mechanics
  10. 3 Hydrodynamics
  11. 4 Stochastic Processes
  12. 5 Fluctuation Relations for Energy and Particle Fluxes
  13. 6 Path Probabilities, Temporal Disorder, and Irreversibility
  14. 7 Driven Brownian Particles and Related Systems
  15. 8 Effusion Processes
  16. 9 Processes in Dilute and Rarefied Gases
  17. 10 Fluctuating Chemohydrodynamics
  18. 11 Reactions
  19. 12 Active Processes
  20. 13 Transport in Hamiltonian Dynamical Models
  21. 14 Quantum Statistical Mechanics
  22. 15 Transport in Open Quantum Systems
  23. Conclusion and Perspectives
  24. Appendix A Complements on Thermodynamics
  25. Appendix B Complements on Dynamical Systems Theory
  26. Appendix C Complements on Statistical Mechanics
  27. Appendix D Complements on Hydrodynamics
  28. Appendix E Complements on Stochastic Processes
  29. Appendix F Complements on Fluctuation Relations
  30. References
  31. Index