25 Years of Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

The book gives an overview of the previous Sitges Conferences. Students of physics and researchers are presented a stimulating account of the development of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of the last years covering a wide scope of topics.

Microscopic reversibility and macroscopic behavior: Physical explanatoins and mathematical derivations.- Twenty-five years of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics: Towards a better understanding of dense fluids.- Models for dissipation in quantum mechanics.- Brownian motion theory: Properties of nonlinear Langevin equations.- Non-equilibrium, phase transition, and related problem.- Simulation of the consistent Boltzmann equation for hard spheres and its extension to higher densities.- Over two decades of pattern formation, a personal perspective.- Fluctuations in the steady state.- Slow non-equilibrium dynamics.- Theory of glass transition in spin glasses, orientational glasses and structural glasses.- Evolution of order parameters in disordered spin systems - a closure procedure.- Elastic instabilities in crystal growth.- Vapor phase nucleation: Molecular mechanisms for embryo development.- Chaos in Lorentz lattice gases.- Dynamics of reptation.- Non-equilibrium fluctuations in simple fluids.- Long time tails in stress correlation functions.- New advances in Laplacian growth models.- Slow dynamics and linear relaxation.- Driven tunneling: New possibilities for coherent and incoherent quantum transport.- From the Random Sequential Adsorption to the ballistic model.- High frequency viscosity of a dilute polydisperse emulsion.- Mesoscopic theory of liquid crystals.- On the microscopic theory of phase coexistence.- A nonequilibrium phase transition induced by multiplicative noise.- Electric field domains in superlattices: Dynamics.- Molecular dynamics simulation of phase separation and domain growth.- Finite-size effects in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation.- Competing scaling behaviours in the late stage of growth kinetics.- Stretched-exponential relaxation of transientelectric birefringence in polymer-like reverse micelles.