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This nice paper gives a concise overview over recent progress in the understanding of non-equilibrium stationary states of open statistical mechanics systems, and in particular anharmonic lattices. This is, of course, one of the fundamental problems in statistical mechanics. The situation one usually considers here is that a mechanical system is coupled to several external systems, called reservoirs that have certain parameters, e.g. the temperature, fixed. If the different reservoirs are at different parameters, the system cannot reach an equilibrium state but is expected to reach a stationary state in which e.g. heat flow is maintained. The issues are to prove existence and uniqueness of such stationary states, rates of convergence, positivity of the entropy production rate, and fluctuation-dissipation theorems. The present paper exposes such results and techniques used to prove them in context of anharmonic lattices coupled to Hamiltonian reservoirs described by free phonon fields. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1015.00019].