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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bikkin, Halid, author.

Lyapilin, Igor I., author.

Series:

De Gruyter Textbook

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-072719-6

OCLC:

1262308100