Chaotic scattering theory, thermodynamic formalism, and transport coefficients
Chaotic scattering theory, thermodynamic formalism, and transport coefficients
The foundations of the chaotic scattering theory for transport and reaction-rate coefficients for classical many-body systems are considered here in some detail. The thermodynamic formalism of Sinai, Ruelle, and Bowen [D. Ruelle, Thermodynamic Formalism (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1978)] is employed to obtain an expression for the escape rate for a …