Nonequilibrium and Irreversibility

• Main Author: Gallavotti, Giovanni (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Mathematical Physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This book concentrates on the properties of the stationary states in chaotic systems of particles or fluids, leaving aside the theory of the way they can be reached. The stationary states of particles or of fluids (understood as probability distributions on microscopic configurations or on the field...

Table of Contents:

• Equilibrium
• Stationary Nonequilibrium
• Discrete phase space
• Fluctuations
• Applications
• Historical comments
• Appendices
• References
• Index.