Random paths and current fluctuations in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

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Abstract: An overview is given of recent advances in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics about the statistics of random paths and current fluctuations. Although statistics is carried out in space for equilibrium statistical mechanics, statistics is considered in time or spacetime for nonequilibrium systems. In this approach, relationships have been established between nonequilibrium properties such as the transport coefficients, the thermodynamic entropy production, or the affinities, and quantities characterizing the microscopic Hamiltonian dynamics and the chaos or fluctuations it may generate. This overview presents results for classical systems in the escape-rate formalism, stochastic processes, and open quantum systems.


This paper is an overview of those results which have been obtained in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in the framework of Hamiltonian classical or quantum dynamics combined with the theory of stochastic processes. One reviews successively chaos-transport modelling, statistics of random paths, statistics of current fluctuations, equilibrium systems. In the considered approach the statistics of random events is performed in time or space-time exactly like the equilibrium statistical mechanics where statistics is performed in space. Various large-deviation relationships can be established between non-equilibrium properties such as transport coefficients, entropy production and other parameters which characterize the underlying microscopic Hamiltonian dynamics.



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