Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems

• 1. Verfasser: Alessandro Sarracino (Ed.) (auth)
• Weitere Verfasser: Angelo Vulpiani (Ed.) (auth), Andrea Puglisi (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Schlagworte: Physics; Statistical Mechanics; Stochastic Thermodynamics; Large Deviations; Small Systems; Non-Equilibrium Fluctuations
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A challenging frontier in modern statistical physics concerns systems with a small number of degrees of freedom, far from the thermodynamic limit. Beyond the general interest in the foundation of statistical mechanics, the relevance of this subject is due to the recent increase of resolution in the...