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Nonequilibrium Systems : Hard Disks and Harmonic Oscillators Near and Far From Equilibrium

William Graham Hoover, Carol Griswold Hoover, Julien Clinton Sprott

Published 2015-07-29Version 1

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

Comments: Thirteen Figures and Thirty Nine Pages, Invited article for Molecular Simulation issue on Nonequilibrium Systems
Categories: cond-mat.stat-mech
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