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Frontiers of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Gerald T. Moore

    1. University of New Mexico, Alburquerque, USA

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  2. Marlan O. Scully

    1. University of New Mexico, Alburquerque, USA
      Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Federal Republic of Germany

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 135)

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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The four-week period fran May 20 to June 16, 1984 was an intensive period of advanced study on the foundations and frontiers of nonequili­ brium statistical physics (NSP). During the first two weeks of this period, an advanced-study course on the "Foundations of NSP" was con­ ducted in Albuquerque under the sponsorship of the University of New Mexico Center for High-Technology Materials. This was followed by a two-week NATO Advanced Study Insti tute on the "Frontiers of NSP" in Santa Fe under the same directorship. Many Students attended both meetings. This book comprises proceedings based on those lectures and covering a broad spectrum of topics in NSP ranging fran basic problems in quantum measurement theory to analogies between lasers and Darwinian evolution. The various types of quantum distribution functions and their uses are treated by several authors. other tools of NSP, such as Langevin equations, Fokker-Planck equations, and master equations, are developed and applied to areas such as laser physics, plasma physics, Brownian motion, and hydrodynamic instabilities. The properties and experimental detection of squeezed states and antibunching are described, as well as experimental tests of the violation of Bell's inequality. Information theory, mean-field theory, reservoir theory, entropy maximization, and even a novel nonlinear generalization of quantum mechanics are used to discuss nonequilibrium phenanena and the approach toward thermodynamic equilibrium.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of New Mexico, Alburquerque, USA

    Gerald T. Moore, Marlan O. Scully

  • Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Federal Republic of Germany

    Marlan O. Scully

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Frontiers of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

  • Editors: Gerald T. Moore, Marlan O. Scully

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series B:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2181-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42233-1Due: 31 May 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9284-5Published: 28 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2181-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1221

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 510

  • Topics: Complex Systems, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems

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