Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
Dec 1977
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977cemec..16..489p&link_type=abstract
Celestial Mechanics, vol. 16, Dec. 1977, p. 489-507. Research supported by the Robert A. Welch Foundation.
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
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Classical Mechanics, Hamiltonian Functions, Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamic Equilibrium, Thermodynamics, Energy Dissipation, Ergodic Process, Invariance, Kinetic Equations, Nonlinear Systems, Operators (Mathematics), Systems Stability
Scientific paper
The paper presents a new conceptual framework for the transition from dynamics to statistical mechanics. A central role is played by the collision operator, the destruction and creation operators, and their asymptotic behavior. A classification of invariants into regular and singular invariants follows if the asymptotic collision operator does not vanish identically. The nonvanishing of the collision operator is the dissipativity condition, and it is closely related to Poincare's theory of the nonexistence of uniform invariants. Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics provides a criterion for ergodic properties once the dissipativity condition is satisfied.
George Christian
Grecos A.
Prigogine Ilya
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