Dynamical systems and irreversibility: Proc. XXI Solvay congress in physics

Ioannis Antoniou, I. Prigogine, Stuart A. Rice0471222917, 9780471222910, 9780471234272

Edited by Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine and renowned authority Stuart A. Rice, the Advances in Chemical Physics series provides a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations in every area of the discipline. In a format that encourages the expression of individual points of view, experts in the field present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest. Volume 122 collects papers from the XXI Solvay Conference on Physics, dedicated to the exploration of “Dynamical Systems and Irreversibility. Ioannis Antoniou, Deputy Director of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, edits and assembles this cutting-edge research, including articles such as “Non-Markovian Effects in the Standard Map,” “Harmonic Analysis of Unstable Systems,” “Age and Age Fluctuations in an Unstable Quantum System,” and discussion of many more subjects. Advances in Chemical Physics remains the premier venue for presentations of new findings in its field.

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Table of contents :
Dynamical Systems & Irreversibility……Page 1
Copyright……Page 5
Contents……Page 14
Editorial Board……Page 3
Contributors……Page 6
Administrative Board……Page 8
Scientific Committee……Page 10
Solvay Conferences on Physics……Page 12
Preface……Page 16
Opening Speech by J. Solvay……Page 18
Introductory Remarks by Ilya Prigogine……Page 22
Part1 Discrete Maps……Page 24
Ch1 Non-Markovian Effects in Standard Map……Page 26
Ch2 Thermodynamics of Simple Hamiltonian Chaotic System……Page 44
Ch3 Harmonic Analysis of Unstable Systems……Page 56
Ch4 Properties of Permanent & Transient Chaos in Critical States……Page 72
Ch5 From Coupled Dynamical Systems to Biological Irreversibility……Page 76
Part2 Transport & Diffusion……Page 98
Ch6 Irreversibility in Reversible Multibaker Maps–Transport & Fractal Distributions……Page 100
Ch7 Diffusion & Poincare-Birkhoff Mapping of Chaotic Systems……Page 132
Ch8 Transport Theory for Collective Modes & Green-Kubo Formalism for Moderately Dense Gases……Page 152
Ch9 New Kineticlaws of Cluster Formation in N-Body Hamiltonian Systems……Page 184
Part3 Quantum Theory, Measurement & Decoherence……Page 188
Ch10 Quantum Phenomena of Single Atoms……Page 190
Ch11 Quantum Superpositions & Decoherence: How to Detect Interference of Macroscopically Distinct Optical States……Page 222
Ch12 Quantum Decoherence & Glauber dynamics from Stochastic Limit……Page 238
Ch13 CP Violation as Antieigenvector-Breaking……Page 262
Part4 Extension of Quantum Theory & Field Theory……Page 282
Ch14 dynamics of Correlations–Formalism for Both Integrable & Nonintegrable Dynamical Systems……Page 284
Ch15 Generalized Quantum Field Theory……Page 300
Ch16 Age & Age Fluctuations in Unstable Quantum System……Page 310
Ch17 Microphysical Irreversibility & Time Asymmetric Quantum Mechanics……Page 324
Ch18 Possible Origins of Quantum Fluctuation given by Alternative Quantization Rules……Page 344
Author Index……Page 354
Subject Index……Page 362