Overview
- Nominated by "La Sapienza" University of Rome as prize winning thesis
- Tackles the difficult problem of describing systems that are destabilized by the flow of currents
- Investigates the “glassy ratchet” phenomenon and brings support to the idea of using it as a non equilibrium thermometer
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About this book
The presence of currents is quite common in nature and produces rich phenomena which are far from being included in a general framework. This thesis focuses on this general problem by studying different models such as granular materials and systems exhibiting anomalous diffusion and shows how the generalized response techniques can be successfully used to catch the relevant degrees of freedom that drive the systems out of equilibrium.
This study paves the way to the use of the generalized fluctuation relations in an operative way, in order to extract information from a non-equilibrium system and to build the corresponding phenomenological theory.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Dario Villamaina received both his undergraduate and his PhD degrees in Physics from "La Sapienza" University of Rome with highest marks. From 2011 to 2013 he held a CNRS post-doctoral fellowship at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistique, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France.
Currently he works at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he was awarded the “Philippe Meyer” post-doctoral fellowship. His research interests range from non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and kinetic theory to statistics of correlated variables and random matrices. He is the co-author of more than 15 publications in peer-reviewed journals on these subjects.
His thesis was nominated as the best in Statistical Physics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transport Properties in Non-Equilibrium and Anomalous Systems
Authors: Dario Villamaina
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01772-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01771-6Published: 29 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34980-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01772-3Published: 19 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 125
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complex Systems, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Physical Chemistry, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems