E.G.D. Cohen
Professor Emeritus
We are a statistical physics group at the Rockefeller
University in
New York. Prof. E. G. D. Cohen and co-workers have been studying the theoretical
description of small, micro and nanoscale, systems at short time
scales. The aim is to use our expertise as theoretical physicists to
look at new fundamental physical properties of small, nanoscale
systems. By developing new equations to describe phenomena in space
and time regimes for which hitherto there are no theories, we hope to
understand the possibilities and inherent limitations of devices at
such small scales, as well as which effects are potentially harmful or
troublesome for their functioning.
News
February 2004: The Boltzmann
medal 2004, which honors outstanding contributions to
Statistical Physics, has been awarded jointly to
Prof. E. G. D. Cohen and
Prof. H. E. Stanley. Citation for Prof. Cohen:
``For his fundamental contributions to nonequilibrium statistical
mechanics, including the development of a theory of transport phenomena
in dense gases, and the characterization of measures and fluctuations
in nonequilibrium stationary states.''
July 2004: The extension of the fluctuation theorem for heat fluctuations in
electric circuits as predicted by Van Zon,
Ciliberto and Cohen [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 130601 (2004)] has been
verified experimentally by Garnier and Ciliberto [Phys.
Rev. E 71, 060101(R), 2005].
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