Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Liquids
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 8/7/2014
EAN 9781107424531, ISBN10: 1107424534
Paperback, 328 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
In recent years the interaction between dynamical systems theory and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics has been enormous. The discovery of fluctuation theorems as a fundamental structure common to almost all non-equilibrium systems, and the connections with the free energy calculation methods of Jarzynski and Crooks, have excited both theorists and experimentalists. This graduate-level book charts the development and theoretical analysis of molecular dynamics as applied to equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems. Designed for both researchers in the field and graduate students of physics, it connects molecular dynamics simulation with the mathematical theory to understand non-equilibrium steady states. It also provides a link between the atomic, nano, and macro worlds. The book ends with an introduction to the use of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to justify a thermodynamic treatment of non-equilibrium steady states, and gives a direction to further avenues of exploration.
1. Introduction
2. Linear irreversible thermodynamics
3. The microscopic connection
4. The Green–Kubo relations
5. Linear response theory
6. Computer simulation algorithms
7. Nonlinear response theory
8. Dynamical stability
9. Nonequilibrium fluctuations
10. Thermodynamics of steady states
References
Index.