Dynamical Systems and Irreversibility

Ioannis Antoniou is Deputy Director of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry.

• Administrative Board of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry. Scientific Committee for Physics of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry. The Solvay Conferences in Physics. Preface. Openining Speech by J. Solvay. Introductory Remarks by I. Prigogine. PART ONE: DISCRETE MAPS. Non-Markovian Effects in the Standard Map (R. Balescu). Thermodynamics of a Simple Hamiltonian Chaotic System (H. Hasegawa). Harmonic Analysis of Unstable Systems (I. Antoniou and Z. Suchanecki). Properties of Permanent and Transient Chaos in Critical States (P. Szepfalusy). From Coupled Dynamical Systems to Biological Irreversibility (K. Kaneko). PART TWO: TRANSPORT AND DIFFUSION. Irreversibility in Reversible Multibaker Maps -- Transport and Fractal Distributions (S. Tasaki). Diffusion and the Poincare-Birkhoff Mapping of Chaotic Systems (P. Gaspard). Transport Theory for Collective Modes and Green-Kubo Formalism for Moderately Dense Gases (T. Petrosky). New Kinetic Laws of Cluster Formation in N-body Hamiltonian Systems (Y. Aizawa). PART THREE: QUANTUM THEORY, MEASUREMENT AND DECOHERENCE. Quantum Phenomena of Single Atoms (H. Walther). Quantum Superpositions and Decoherence: How To Detect Interference of Macroscopically Distinct Optical States (F.T. Arecchi and A. Montina). Quantum Decoherence and the Glauber Dynamics from the Stochastic Limit (L. Accardi and S. Kozyrev). CP-Violation as Antieigenvector-Breaking (K. Gustafson). PART FOUR: EXTENSION OF QUANTUM THEORY AND FIELD THEORY. Dynamics of Correlations: A Formalism for Both Integrable and Nonintegrable Dynamical Systems (I. Prigogine). Generalized Quantum Field Theory (E. Sudarshan and L. Boya). Age and Age Fluctuations in an Unstable Quantum System (G. Ordonez, T. Petrosky, E. Karpov). Microphysical Irreversibility and Time Asymmetric Quantum Mechanics (A. Bohm). Possible Origins of Quantum Fluctuation Given by Alternative Quantization Rules (M. Namiki). Author Index. Subject Index.

"...contains the proceedings of the XXI Solvay Conference on Physics held in Kasai Science City, Japan..." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 124, No. 35, 2002)