Lifetime of System and Nonequilibrium Statistical Operator Method

✍ Scribed by V. V. Ryazanov

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/1521-3978(200108)49:8/9<885::aid-prop885>3.0.co;2-7

✦ Synopsis

Lifetime of nonequilibrium statistical system is considered. It is supposed that the nonequilibrium statistical operator implicitly contains the lifetime. The operations of taking of invariant part, averaging on initial conditions used in works of D. N. Zubarev, temporary coarse-graining (Kirkwood), choose of the direction of time are replaced by averaging on lifetime distribution. The expression for average lifetime of nonequilibrium system is derived. It is shown, that the nonequilibrium statistical operator in the formulation of D. N. Zubarev describes the lifetime of nonequilibrium systems.