Dynamical Systems and Irreversibility: A Special Volume of Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 122

Dynamical Systems & Irreversibility......Page 1
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 14
Editorial Board......Page 3
Contributors......Page 6
Administrative Board......Page 8
Scientific Committee......Page 10
Solvay Conferences on Physics......Page 12
Preface......Page 16
Opening Speech by J. Solvay......Page 18
Introductory Remarks by Ilya Prigogine......Page 22
Part1 Discrete Maps......Page 24
Ch1 Non-Markovian Effects in Standard Map......Page 26
Ch2 Thermodynamics of Simple Hamiltonian Chaotic System......Page 44
Ch3 Harmonic Analysis of Unstable Systems......Page 56
Ch4 Properties of Permanent & Transient Chaos in Critical States......Page 72
Ch5 From Coupled Dynamical Systems to Biological Irreversibility......Page 76
Part2 Transport & Diffusion......Page 98
Ch6 Irreversibility in Reversible Multibaker Maps--Transport & Fractal Distributions......Page 100
Ch7 Diffusion & Poincare-Birkhoff Mapping of Chaotic Systems......Page 132
Ch8 Transport Theory for Collective Modes & Green-Kubo Formalism for Moderately Dense Gases......Page 152
Ch9 New Kineticlaws of Cluster Formation in N-Body Hamiltonian Systems......Page 184
Part3 Quantum Theory, Measurement & Decoherence......Page 188
Ch10 Quantum Phenomena of Single Atoms......Page 190
Ch11 Quantum Superpositions & Decoherence: How to Detect Interference of Macroscopically Distinct Optical States......Page 222
Ch12 Quantum Decoherence & Glauber dynamics from Stochastic Limit......Page 238
Ch13 CP Violation as Antieigenvector-Breaking......Page 262
Part4 Extension of Quantum Theory & Field Theory......Page 282
Ch14 dynamics of Correlations--Formalism for Both Integrable & Nonintegrable Dynamical Systems......Page 284
Ch15 Generalized Quantum Field Theory......Page 300
Ch16 Age & Age Fluctuations in Unstable Quantum System......Page 310
Ch17 Microphysical Irreversibility & Time Asymmetric Quantum Mechanics......Page 324
Ch18 Possible Origins of Quantum Fluctuation given by Alternative Quantization Rules......Page 344
Author Index......Page 354
Subject Index......Page 362