25 Years of Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Proceedings of the XIII Sitges Conference, Held in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 13–17 June 1994

Joel L. Lebowitz (auth.), J. J. Brey, J. Marro, J. M. Rubí, M. San Miguel (eds.)3540591583, 9783540591580

The book aims to give an overview of the previous Sitges Conferences, which have been held during the last 25 years, with special emphasis on topics related to non-equilibrium phenomena. It includes review articles and articles dealing with new trends in the subject, written by scientists who have played an important role in the development of this area. The book is intended as a commemorative edition of the Sitges Conferences. Graduate students of physics and researchers will find this a stimulating account of the development of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in the last years, covering a wide scope of topics: kinetic theory, hydrodynamics, fluctuation phenomena and stochastic processes, relaxation phenomena, kinetics of phase transitions, growth kinetics, and so on.

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Table of contents :
Microscopic reversibility and macroscopic behavior: Physical explanatoins and mathematical derivations….Pages 1-20
Twenty-five years of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics: Towards a better understanding of dense fluids….Pages 21-50
Models for dissipation in quantum mechanics….Pages 51-59
Brownian motion theory: Properties of nonlinear Langevin equations….Pages 60-69
Non-equilibrium, phase transition, and related problem….Pages 70-81
Simulation of the consistent Boltzmann equation for hard spheres and its extension to higher densities….Pages 82-90
Over two decades of pattern formation, a personal perspective….Pages 91-124
Fluctuations in the steady state….Pages 125-134
Slow non-equilibrium dynamics….Pages 135-142
Theory of glass transition in spin glasses, orientational glasses and structural glasses….Pages 143-160
Evolution of order parameters in disordered spin systems — a closure procedure….Pages 161-176
Elastic instabilities in crystal growth….Pages 177-188
Vapor phase nucleation: Molecular mechanisms for embryo development….Pages 189-198
Chaos in Lorentz lattice gases….Pages 199-210
Dynamics of reptation….Pages 211-226
Non-equilibrium fluctuations in simple fluids….Pages 227-239
Long time tails in stress correlation functions….Pages 240-249
New advances in Laplacian growth models….Pages 250-258
Slow dynamics and linear relaxation….Pages 259-268
Driven tunneling: New possibilities for coherent and incoherent quantum transport….Pages 269-281
From the Random Sequential Adsorption to the ballistic model….Pages 282-295
High frequency viscosity of a dilute polydisperse emulsion….Pages 296-302
Mesoscopic theory of liquid crystals….Pages 303-311
On the microscopic theory of phase coexistence….Pages 312-321
A nonequilibrium phase transition induced by multiplicative noise….Pages 322-326
Electric field domains in superlattices: Dynamics….Pages 327-337
Molecular dynamics simulation of phase separation and domain growth….Pages 338-343
Finite-size effects in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation….Pages 344-351
Competing scaling behaviours in the late stage of growth kinetics….Pages 352-362
Stretched-exponential relaxation of transient electric birefringence in polymer-like reverse micelles….Pages 363-370