Physical Kinetics

1. Brief reminders

1.1. The Boltzmann transport equation

1.2. The generalized susceptibility and the linear response 1.3. The fluctuation-dissipation theorem



1.4. The Onsager reciprocal relations

1.5. The Lindblad master equation

 

2. Problems

2.1. The Langevin equation and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem

2.2. The Boltzmann transport equation in the -approximation: the thermoelectric effects in conductors

2.3. Galvanomagnetic effects in metals

2.4. Kinetic phenomena in a metal and normal Fermi liquid

2.5. Electron-phonon scattering in a metal: the transport coefficients

2.6. The electron scattering with magnetic impurities: the Kondo effect

2.7. Weak localization effects in a metal with impurities

2.8. Ballistic electron transport in the mesoscopic systems

2.9. The rarified Bose and Fermi gases

2.10. The hopping Mott conductivity and the Coulomb gap

2.11. Kinetics of phonons and thermal conductivity in dielectrics

2.12. The hydrodynamics of normal and superfluid liquids: sound oscillations and energy dissipation

2.13. Kapitza resistance and kinetic phenomena at the superfluidsolid helium interface

2.14. Collisionless plasma: the permittivity and the longitudinal and transverse oscillations

2.15. Kinetics of first-order phase transitions: melting and solidification

2.16. Macroscopic quantum tunneling

2.17. Macroscopic quantum nucleation

2.18. Open quantum systems: the Lindblad equation

2.19. Elements of diagrammatic Keldysh technique for non-equilibrium systems

 3. Solutions of Problems



3.1. The Langevin equation and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem

3.2. The Boltzmann transport equation in the _-approximation: the thermoelectric effects in conductors3.3. Galvanomagnetic

Serguei N. Burmistrov is Researcher and Lecturer at the Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow, Russia