Non-Dissipative Effects in Nonequilibrium Systems

This book introduces and discusses both the fundamental aspects and the measurability of applications of time-symmetric kinetic quantities, outlining the features that constitute the non-dissipative branch of non-equilibrium physics.
These specific features of non-equilibrium dynamics have largely been ignored in standard statistical mechanics texts. This introductory-level book offers novel material that does not take the traditional line of extending standard thermodynamics to the irreversible domain.
It shows that although stationary dissipation is essentially equivalent with steady non-equilibrium and ubiquitous in complex phenomena, non-equilibrium is not determined solely by the time-antisymmetric sector of energy-entropy considerations. While this should not be very surprising, this book provides timely, simple reminders of the role of time-symmetric and kinetic aspects in the construction of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.

List of contents

Introductory Comments.- (Non-)dissipative e ects?.- On the stationary distribution.- Transport properties.- Response.- Frenetic bounds to dissipation rates.- Symmetry breaking.- Frenometry.- Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Maes
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2017
• EAN: 9783319677798
• ISBN: 978-3-31-967779-8
• No. of pages: 53
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 122 g
• Illustrations: VII, 53 p. 15 illus., 14 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Complexity
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; C, Thermodynamics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Materials / States of matter, Physics and Astronomy, Thermodynamics & heat, Nonlinear science, Dynamics & statics, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Statistical physics, Nonlinear Optics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems, Amorphous substances, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Complex fluids, Soft and Granular Matter