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Nonequilibrium Statistical Operator Method and Generalized Kinetic Equations

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We consider some principal problems of nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics in the framework of the Zubarev nonequilibrium statistical operator approach. We present a brief comparative analysis of some approaches to describing irreversible processes based on the concept of nonequilibrium Gibbs ensembles and their applicability to describing nonequilibrium processes. We discuss the derivation of generalized kinetic equations for a system in a heat bath. We obtain and analyze a damped Schrödinger-type equation for a dynamical system in a heat bath. We study the dynamical behavior of a particle in a medium taking the dissipation effects into account. We consider the scattering problem for neutrons in a nonequilibrium medium and derive a generalized Van Hove formula. We show that the nonequilibrium statistical operator method is an effective, convenient tool for describing irreversible processes in condensed matter.

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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 194, No. 1, pp. 39–70, January, 2018.

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Kuzemsky, A.L. Nonequilibrium Statistical Operator Method and Generalized Kinetic Equations. Theor Math Phys 194, 30–56 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S004057791801004X

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