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A formalism to determine the response function of a sample in conditions far from thermal equilibrium is presented. It consists in a generalization of scattering theory coupled to the statistical theory of irreversible processes, the nonequilibrium statistical operator method, developed by Zubarev. The scattering cross section is expressed in terms of double-time correlation functions, which are related to appropriate nonequilibrium thermodynamic Green's functions. The latter are also used to treat generalized transport equations, and, as an illustration, the method is applied to the study of the time-resolved Raman spectroscopy of a photoexcited semiconductor plasma.
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Luzzi, R., Vasconcellos, A.R. Response function theory for far-from-equilibrium statistical systems. J Stat Phys 23, 539–559 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01011729
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