Ergodicity: How Can It Be Broken?

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-54251-0_2zbMath1320.82004OpenAlexW36782389MaRDI QIDQ5261895

Roberto Livi, Giancarlo Benettin, Giorgio Parisi

Publication date: 8 July 2015

Published in: Large Deviations in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54251-0_2

zbMATH Keywords

ergodic hypothesisFermi-Pasta-Ulam modelBoltzmann mechanistic formulation of thermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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