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Time correlation functions (TCF) are powerful tools in the study of microscopic dynamic processes in gases, liquids, solids or plasmas, in or near thermodynamic equilibrium. For the statistical mechanics theorist they are of primary importance, since they yield a measure of intrinsic microscopic fluctuations, and a quantitative description of “molecular dynamics” in many-body systems. According to the choice of microscopic quantities which are correlated, TCF’s probe both single-particle motions and collective modes resulting from the cooperative motions of large numbers of particles. TCF’s are also a convenient bridge between microscopic and macroscopic descriptions of many-body systems; in particular they yield exact microscopic expressions for the phenomenological transport coefficients of hydrodynamics.
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Hansen, JP. (1978). Correlation Functions and Their Relationship with Experiments. In: Dupuy, J., Dianoux, A.J. (eds) Microscopic Structure and Dynamics of Liquids. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 33. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0859-1_1
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