Contrasts between equilibrium and non-eq
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Zia, R. K.P. (author);Shaw, L. B. (author);Schmittmann, B. (author);Astalos, R.
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A century ago, the foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics were laid. For a system in equilibrium with a thermal bath, much is understood through the Boltzmann factor, e -H[C]/kT , for the probability of finding the system in any microscopic configuration C. In contrast, apart from some spe