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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554213503321

Autore

Bikkin Halid

Titolo

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and physical kinetics / / Halid Bikkin, Igor I. Lyapilin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-072719-6

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 pages)

Collana

De Gruyter Textbook

Disciplina

536.7

Soggetti

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Authors’ introduction -- Contents -- 1 Phenomenological thermodynamics of irreversible processes -- 2 Brownian motion -- 3 Kinetic equations in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics -- 4 Kinetic equation for electrons and phonons in conducting crystals -- 5 Theory of linear response to an external mechanical perturbation -- 6 Non-equilibrium statistical operator method -- 7 Physical principles of spintronics -- 8 Response of a highly non-equilibrium system to a weak measuring field -- 9 Master equation approach -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This new edition covers contemporary directions of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics as well as classical methods of kinetics. Supplementary material on the non-equilibrium statistical operator (NSO) method for calculating kinetics coefficients describing spintronics is included in this new addition. This book is an easy-to-read text describing the fundamentals of the field.