M2PCS: Nonequilibrium and Active Systems 2023-2024
Exam: Tuesday January Xth, 2024. All hand-written documents are allowed. No electronic devices allowed (not even the cell phone). No printed document allowed (no lecture notes, no tutorials, no solutions ; printout of notes taken on a tablet on demand).
Lectures on XXX: (location: Condorcet bldg, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris).
Tutorials
Outline of the lectures
Chapter 1 Equilibrium statistical mechanics
Chapter 2 The Langevin equation
Chapter 3 Stochastic calculus
Chapter 4 The Fokker-Planck equation
Chapter 5 Thermal Ratchets, Stochastic Engines
Chapter 6 Molecular Motors
Chapter 7 Active Particles
References
Van Kampen, Stochastics processes in physics and chemistry
Risken, The Fokker-Planck equation
Gardiner, Stochastic methods
Täuber, Critical Dynamics A Field Theory Approach to Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Scaling Behavior
Sekimoto, Stochastic energetics
Dorfman, An introduction to chaos in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics