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Microscopic Chaos, Fractals And Transport In Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics.
Title:
Microscopic Chaos, Fractals And Transport In Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics.
Author:
Klages, Rainer.
ISBN:
9789812771513
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (458 pages)
Series:
Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics, v. 24
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction and outline -- 1.1 Hamiltonian dynamical systems approach to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics -- 1.2 Thermostated dynamical systems approach to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics -- 1.3 The red thread through this book -- Part 1: Fractal transport coefficients -- 2. Deterministic diffusion -- 2.1 A simple model for deterministic diffusion -- 2.2 A parameter-dependent fractal diffusion coefficient -- 2.3 Summary -- 3. Deterministic drift-diffusion -- 3.1 Drift-diffusion model: mathematical definition -- 3.2 +Calculating deterministic drift and diffusion coefficients -- 3.2.1 Twisted eigenstate method -- 3.2.2 Transition matrix methods -- 3.2.3 Numerical comparison of the different methods -- 3.3 The phase diagram -- 3.4 Simple maps as deterministic ratchets -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Deterministic reaction-diffusion -- 4.1 A reactive-diffusive multibaker map -- 4.1.1 Deterministic models of reaction-diffusion -- 4.1.2 The Frobenius-Perron operator -- 4.2 Diffusive dynamics -- 4.2.1 +Diffusive modes of the dyadic multibaker -- 4.2.2 The parameter-dependent diffusion coefficient -- 4.2.2.1 Fractal forms in the Taylor-Green-Kubo formula for dif- fusion -- 4.2.2.2 An area-preserving multibaker with a fractal diffusion co- efficient -- 4.3 Reactive dynamics -- 4.3.1 +Reactive modes of the dyadic multibaker -- 4.3.2 The parameter-dependent reaction rate -- 4.4 Summary -- 5. Deterministic diffusion and random perturbations -- 5.1 Disordered dynamical systems -- 5.2 Noisy dynamical systems -- 5.3 Summary -- 6. From normal to anomalous diffusion -- 6.1 Deterministic diffusion and bifurcations -- 6.2 Anomalous diffusion in intermittent maps -- 6.3 Summary -- 7. From diffusive maps to Hamiltonian particle billiards -- 7.1 Correlated random walks in maps -- 7.2 Correlated random walks in billiards -- 7.3 Summary.

8. Designing billiards with irregular transport coefficients -- 8.1 Diffusion in the ower-shaped billiard -- 8.2 +Random and correlated random walks -- 8.3 Diffusion in porous solids -- 8.4 Summary -- 9. Deterministic diffusion of granular particles -- 9.1 Resonances and diffusion in the bouncing ball billiard -- 9.2 +Diffusion by correlated random walks -- 9.3 Vibratory conveyors -- 9.4 Summary -- Part 2: Thermostated dynamical systems -- 10. Motivation: coupling a system to a thermal reservoir -- 10.1 Why thermostats? -- 10.2 Modeling thermal reservoirs: the Langevin equation -- 10.3 Equilibrium velocity distributions for thermostated systems -- 10.4 Applying thermostats: the periodic Lorentz gas -- 10.5 Summary -- 11. The Gaussian thermostat -- 11.1 Construction of the Gaussian thermostat -- 11.2 Chaos and transport in Gaussian thermostated systems -- 11.2.1 Phase space contraction and entropy production -- 11.2.2 Lyapunov exponents and transport coefficients -- 11.2.3 Nonequilibrium fractal attractors -- 11.2.4 Electrical conductivity -- 11.3 Summary -- 12. The Nos e-Hoover thermostat -- 12.1 The dissipative Liouville equation -- 12.2 Construction of the Nos e-Hoover thermostat -- 12.2.1 Heuristic derivation -- 12.2.2 Physics of this thermostat -- 12.3 Properties of the Nos e-Hoover thermostat -- 12.3.1 Chaos and transport -- 12.3.2 +Generalized Hamiltonian formalism -- 12.3.3 Fractals and transport -- 12.4 +Subtleties of Nose-Hoover dynamics -- 12.4.1 Necessary conditions and generalizations -- 12.4.2 Thermal reservoirs in nonequilibrium -- 12.5 Summary -- 13. Universalities in Gaussian and Nos e-Hoover dynamics? -- 13.1 Non-Hamiltonian nonequilibrium steady states -- 13.2 Phase space contraction and entropy production -- 13.3 Transport coefficients and dynamical systems quantities.

13.4 Fractal attractors for nonequilibrium steady states -- 13.5 Nonlinear response in the driven periodic Lorentz gas -- 13.6 Summary -- 14. Gaussian and Nose-Hoover thermostats revisited -- 14.1 Non-ideal Gaussian thermostat -- 14.2 Non-ideal Nose-Hoover thermostat -- 14.3 +Further alternative thermostats -- 14.4 Summary -- 15. Stochastic and deterministic boundary thermostats -- 15.1 Stochastic boundary thermostats -- 15.2 Deterministic boundary thermostats -- 15.3 +Boundary thermostats from first principles -- 15.4 Deterministic boundary thermostats for the driven periodic Lorentz gas -- 15.4.1 Phase space contraction and entropy production -- 15.4.2 Attractors, bifurcations and conductivity -- 15.4.3 Lyapunov exponents -- 15.5 Hard disk fluid under shear and heat flow -- 15.5.1 Homogeneously and inhomogeneously driven shear and heat flows -- 15.5.2 Shear and heat flows thermostated by deterministic scattering -- 15.6 Summary -- 16. Active Brownian particles and Nos e-Hoover dynamics -- 16.1 Brownian motion of migrating cells? -- 16.2 +Moving biological entities as active Brownian particles -- 16.3 +Bimodal velocity distributions and Nose-Hoover dynamics -- 16.4 Summary -- Part 3: Outlook and conclusions -- 17. Further topics in chaotic transport theory -- 17.1 Fluctuation relations -- 17.1.1 Entropy fluctuation in nonequilibrium steady states -- 17.1.2 The Gallavotti-Cohen fluctuation theorem -- 17.1.3 The Evans-Searles fluctuation theorem -- 17.1.4 Jarzynski work relation and Crooks relation -- 17.2 Lyapunov modes -- 17.3 Fourier's law -- 17.3.1 The basic problem -- 17.3.2 Heat conduction in anharmonic chaotic chains -- 17.3.3 Heat conduction in chaotic particle billiards -- 17.4 Pseudochaotic diffusion -- 17.4.1 Microscopic chaos and diffusion? -- 17.4.2 Polygonal billiard channels -- 17.5 Summary -- 18. Conclusions.

18.1 Microscopic chaos and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics: the big picture -- 18.2 Assessment of the main results -- 18.2.1 Existence of fractal transport coefficients -- 18.2.2 Universalities in thermostated dynamical systems? -- 18.3 Important open questions -- 18.3.1 Fractal transport coefficients -- 18.3.2 Thermostated dynamical systems -- Note added in proof -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
A valuable introduction for newcomers as well as an important reference and source of inspiration for established researchers, this book provides an up-to-date summary of central topics in the field of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and dynamical systems theory. Understanding macroscopic properties of matter starting from microscopic chaos in the equations of motion of single atoms or molecules is a key problem in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. Of particular interest both for theory and applications are transport processes such as diffusion, reaction, conduction and viscosity. Recent advances towards a deterministic theory of nonequilibrium statistical physics are summarized: Both Hamiltonian dynamical systems under nonequilibrium boundary conditions and non-Hamiltonian modelings of nonequilibrium steady states by using thermal reservoirs are considered. The surprising new results include transport coefficients that are fractal functions of control parameters, fundamental relations between transport coefficients and chaos quantities, and an understanding of nonequilibrium entropy production in terms of fractal measures and attractors. The theory is particularly useful for the description of many-particle systems with properties in-between conventional thermodynamics and nonlinear science, as they are frequently encountered on nanoscales.
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