Conversations on nonequilibrium physics with an extraterrestrial

Physics Today

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 48-53

  Ruelle, David ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ENTROPY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HAMILTONIANS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; VISCOUS FLOW;

ENERGY DENSITY; EQUILIBRIUM THEORY; NONEQUILIBRIUM STEADY STATE (NESS); QUANTUM SPIN SYSTEMS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 2442528874     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1768674     Document Type: Article

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