Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics: Linear Irreversible Processes - Noëlle Pottier

. .

Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
No?lle Pottier is Professor of Physics at Universit? Paris Diderot, `Mati?re et Syst?mes Complexes' (MSC) laboratory.

Sommaire:
1. Random variables and random processes; 2. Linear thermodynamics of irreversible processes; 3. Statistical description of out-of-equilibrium systems; 4. Classical systems: reduced distribution functions; 5. The Boltzmann equation; 6. Transport coefficients; 7. From the Boltzmann equation to the hydrodynamic equations; 8. The Bloch-Boltzmann theory of electronic transport; 9. Master equations; 10. Brownian motion: the Langevin equation; 11. Brownian motion: the Fokker-Planck equation; 12. Linear responses and equilibrium correlations; 13. General linear response theory; 14. The fluctuation-dissipation theorem; 15. Quantum theory of electronic transport; 16. Thermal transport coefficients