The theoretical investigation of charge (and spin) transport at nanometer length scales requires the use of advanced and powerful techniques able to deal with the dynamical properties of the relevant physical systems, to explicitly include out-of-equilibrium situations typical for electrical/heat transport as well as to take into account interaction effects in a systematic way. Equilibrium Gree...

We use the generalized entropy four-current of the Müller-Israel-Stewart (MIS) theories of relativistic dissipative fluids to obtain information about fluctuations around equilibrium states. This allows one to compute the non-classical coefficients of the entropy 4-flux in terms of the equilibrium distribution functions. The Green-Kubo formulae are used to compute the standard transport coeffic...

Over 3,300 unscreened agricultural water diversion pipes line the levees and riverbanks of the Sacramento River (California) watershed, where the threatened Southern Distinct Population Segment of green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris, spawn. The number of sturgeon drawn into (entrained) and killed by these pipes is greatly unknown. We examined avoidance behaviors and entrainment susceptibility...

This paper reviews a new theory for non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. This gives the non-equilibrium analogue of the Boltzmann probability distribution, and the generalization of entropy to dynamic states. It is shown that this so-called second entropy is maximized in the steady state, in contrast to the rate of production of the conventional entropy, which is not an extremum. The relation...

Let E be a compact subset of C and w ≥ 0 a weight function on E with w > 0 on a non-pluripolar subset of E. To (E, w) we associate a canonical circular set Z ⊂ C. We obtain precise relations between the weighted pluricomplex Green function and equilibrium measure of (E, w) and the pluricomplex Green function and equilibrium measure of Z. These results, combined with an appropriate form of the B...