TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bikkin, Halid
AU  - Lyapilin, Igor I
TI  - Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and physical kinetics
SN  - 9783110337693
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Degruyter,     
KW  -  External mechanical perturbation
KW  -  Kinetic equation for electrons
KW  -  Master equation approach
KW  - Brownian motion
N1  - Bibliography 353-354p.; Index 355-359p
N2  - This graduate textbook covers contemporary directions of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics as well as classical methods of kinetics. Starting from phenomenological non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the kinetic equation method discussed and demonstrated with electrons and phonons in conducting crystals. Linear response theory as well as the non-equilibrium statistical operator and the master equation approach are discussed in the course of the book.

With one of the main propositions being to avoid terms such as obviously and it is easy to show, this treatise is an easy-to-read introduction into this traditional, yet vibrant field. Problems and their well-documented solutions included at appropriate points of the narrative allow the reader to actively develop essential parts of the theory himself
ER  -