E-raamat: Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics: A Modern Perspective

Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Notations and acronyms;
1. Kinetic theory and the Boltzmann equation;
2. Brownian motion, Langevin
and FokkerPlanck equations;
3. Fluctuations and their probability;
4. Linear
response theory and transport phenomena;
5. From equilibrium to
out-of-equilibrium phase transitions: Driven lattice gases;
6. Absorbing
phase transitions;
7. Stochastic dynamics of surfaces and interfaces;
8.
Phase-ordering kinetics;
9. Highlights on pattern formation; Appendix A:
Binary elastic collisions in the hard sphere gas; Appendix B:
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution in the uniform case; Appendix C: Physical
quantities from the Boltzmann equation in the nonuniform Case; Appendix D:
Outine of the Chapman-Enskog method; Appendix E: First-order approximation to
Hydrodynamics; Appendix F: Spectral properties of stochastic matrices;
Appendix G: The deterministic KPZ equation and the Burgers equation; Appendix
J: Stochastic differential equation for the energy of the Brownian particle;
Appendix K: The KramersMoyal expansion; Appendix L: Probability
distributions; Appendix M: The diffusion equation and the Random Walk;
Appendix N: Linear response in quantum systems; Appendix O: Mathematical
properties of response functions; Appendix P: The Van der Waals equation;
Appendix Q: Derivation of the GinzburgLandau free energy; Appendix R: The
perturbative renormalization group for KPZ; Appendix S: TASEP: Map method and
simulations; Appendix T: Bridge Model: Mean-field and simulations; Appendix
U: The AllenCahn equation;  Appendix V: The GibbsThomson relation; Appendix
W: The RayleighBénard instability; Appendix X: General conditions for the
Turing instability;  Appendix Y: Steady states of the one-dimensional TDGL
equation;  Appendix Z: Multiscale analysis; Index.

Roberto Livi is Honorary Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Florence and an associate member of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and of the Institute for Complex Systems of the National Research Council (CNR). His research is focused on nonequilibrium statistical physics, and he has extensive experience teaching courses on statistical physics. He is the current President of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics. Paolo Politi is a Research Director at the Institute for Complex Systems of the National Research Council (CNR), and Fellow of the Marie Curie Association, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Japan Society for the promotion of Science. He currently teaches a course on stochastic processes and nonequilibrium statistical physics at the University of Florence. He was awarded the Outreach Prize of the Italian Physical Society.