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Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series) Book

This book describes new results at the frontier of chaos theory applied to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and to chaotic scattering. Interest in the results of studies of the foundations of statistical mechanics from the viewpoint of chaos theory has been growing worldwide. The author describes how to characterize chaos and sensitivity to initial conditions, especially in Hamiltonian systems and billiards. These methods are then applied to scattering and reaction processes as well as to transport such as diffusion or viscosity as studied in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, or the 2nd law of thermodynamics.Read More

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    This book describes recent advances in the application of chaos theory to classical scattering and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics generally, and to transport by deterministic diffusion in particular. The author presents the basic tools of dynamical systems theory, such as dynamical instability, topological analysis, periodic-orbit methods, Liouvillian dynamics, dynamical randomness and large-deviation formalism. These tools are applied to chaotic scattering and to transport in systems near equilibrium and maintained out of equilibrium. This book will be bought by researchers interested in chaos, dynamical systems, chaotic scattering, and statistical mechanics in theoretical, computational and mathematical physics and also in theoretical chemistry.

  • 0521018250
  • 9780521018258
  • Pierre Gaspard
  • 21 July 2005
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 496
  • New Ed
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