Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

Noëlle Pottier is Professor of Physics at Université Paris Diderot, `Matière et Systèmes Complexes' (MSC) laboratory.

• 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

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