Abstract
In the Langevin equation (Chap. 8), irreversibility was introduced phenomenologically through a damping term. Kinetic theories have the goal of explaining and quantitatively calculating transport processes and dissipative effects due to scattering of the atoms (or in a solid, of the quasiparticles) . The object of these theories is the single-particle distribution function, whose time development is determined by the kinetic equation.
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Schwabl, F. (2002). The Boltzmann Equation. In: Statistical Mechanics. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04702-6_9
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