Irreversibility and Entropy Production in Transport Phenomena II -- Statistical-mechanical Theory on Steady States including Thermal Disturbance and Energy Supply

Abstract: Some general aspects of nonlinear transport phenomena are discussed on the basis of two kinds of formulations obtained by extending Kubo's perturbational scheme of the density matrix and Zubarev's non-equilibrium statistical operator formulation. Both formulations are extended up to infinite order of an external force in compact forms and their relationship is clarified through a direct transformation.