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Statistical mechanics of relaxation processes in alternating fields

V. G. Morozov

Moscow State Institute of Radio-Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)

Abstract: Using the nonequilibrium statistical operator method and the projection technique, we derive the system of exact relaxation equations for a quantum system interacting with an alternating external field. These equations hold in the case where some of the basic dynamical variables describing a nonequilibrium state depend explicitly on time. We obtain the exact expression for the entropy production in an alternating external field.

Keywords: nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, nonequilibrium statistical operator method, relaxation process.

Received: 03.06.2007

DOI: 10.4213/tmf6154

 English version: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2008, 154:1, 85–93

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