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The use of statistical concepts to describe Nature was first introduced to describe classical (not quantum) systems with many degrees of freedom, such as a very large number of molecules or atoms in a macroscopic volume of fluid. However this is not the only situation where statistical concepts must be used to describe natural phenomena.
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Pomeau, Y., Tran, MB. (2019). Introduction. In: Statistical Physics of Non Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 967. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34394-1_1
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