Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics

This book describes recent advances in the application of chaos theory to classical scattering and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics generally, and to transport by deterministic diffusion in particular. The author presents the basic tools of dynamical systems theory, such as dynamical instability, topological analysis, periodic-orbit methods, Liouvillian dynamics, dynamical randomness and large-deviation formalism. These tools are applied to chaotic scattering and to transport in systems near equilibrium and maintained out of equilibrium. This book will be bought by researchers interested in chaos, dynamical systems, chaotic scattering, and statistical mechanics in theoretical, computational and mathematical physics and also in theoretical chemistry.

Author: Pierre Gaspard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/21/2005
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780521018258

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