Nonequilibrium Systems : Hard Disks and Harmonic Oscillators Near and Far From Equilibrium
Abstract
We relate progress in statistical mechanics, both at and far from equilibrium, to advances in the theory of dynamical systems. We consider computer simulations of time-reversible deterministic chaos in small systems with three- and four-dimensional phase spaces. These models provide us with a basis for understanding equilibration and thermodynamic irreversibility in terms of Lyapunov instability, fractal distributions, and thermal constraints
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@article{arxiv.1507.08302,
title = {Nonequilibrium Systems : Hard Disks and Harmonic Oscillators Near and Far From Equilibrium},
author = {William Graham Hoover and Carol Griswold Hoover and Julien Clinton Sprott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.08302},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Thirteen Figures and Forty Pages, Invited article for Molecular Simulation issue on Nonequilibrium Systems, accepted 23 August 2015. The article was published a year later, but with the editing thoroughly botched. The Figures in the Molecular Simulation version are more detailed. Unfortunately the labels and captions suffered from the journal's editing