Speakers: Karel Netočný (Department of Condensed Matter Theory, Institute pf Physics ASCR)
Place: Na Slovance, main lecture roon
Presented in English
Organisers:
Department of Condensed Matter Theory
Abstract: We rise the question to what extent some well-known concepts of equilibrium thermodynamics allow for a meaningful generalization beyond thermal equilibrium. Restricting ourselves to the framework of stochastic systems with a small number of degrees of freedom, we will discuss the following topics: the structure of non-equilibrium states, Lyapunov functionals for the relaxation to steady non-equilibria, and (non-)quasistatic processes out of equilibrium. Remarkable simplifications are found in a close-to-equilibrium regime. (Some technical details are left to Part II of the talk that will be given by J. Pešek.)
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