TY - BOOK ID - 66453104 TI - Statistical mechanics of driven diffusive systems AU - Schmittmann, B AU - Zia, R K P PY - 1995 VL - 17 SN - 0122203178 9786611059323 1281059323 0080538746 9780122203176 9780080538747 9781281059321 PB - London Academic Press DB - UniCat KW - Statistical mechanics. KW - Nonequilibrium thermodynamics. KW - Irreversible thermodynamics KW - Non-equilibrium thermodynamics KW - Thermodynamics of the steady state KW - Irreversible processes KW - Thermodynamics KW - Mechanics KW - Mechanics, Analytic KW - Quantum statistics KW - Statistical physics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66453104 AB - Far-from-equilibrium phenomena, while abundant in nature, are not nearly as well understood as their equilibrium counterparts. On the theoretical side, progress is slowed by the lack of a simple framework, such as the Boltzmann-Gbbs paradigm in the case of equilibrium thermodynamics. On the experimental side, the enormous structural complexity of real systems poses serious obstacles to comprehension.Similar difficulties have been overcome in equilibrium statistical mechanics by focusing on model systems. Even if they seem too simplistic for known physical systems, models give us considerab ER -