个人简介

Denis Evans graduated from The Australian National University with a BSc (hons) and received his PhD from the Australian National University. He has since held positions at Oxford University (1976-1977), Cornell University (1977-1978), The Australian National University (1978-1979), the National Bureau of Standards, Bolder, Colorado (1979-1980) before being appointed Fellow at the Research School of Chemistry in 1982. He has been awarded fellowships of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1989) and the Australian Academy of Science (1994). Denis Evans received the Fulbright Fellowship to Colorado (1979), the Bronze Medallion, Australian Rheological Society (1988), the Distinguished Young Chemist Award, Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (1988), the Rennie Medal for Chemistry, RACI (1993), the Frederick White Prize, AAS (1990), the H. G. Smith Memorial Medal of the RACI (2000), the S.F. Boys-A. Rahman Lectureship, RSC (2000) and the Centenary Medal (2003) and the Moyal Medal (for Mathematics, 2004). He was appointed Professor at the Research School of Chemistry in 1990.

研究领域

Liquid state chemical physics

Our research interests include nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. We have been involved in the development of nearly all of the computer simulation algorithms used for the calculation of transport properties of classical atomic, molecular and short-chain polymeric fluids and lubricants. Algorithms that we have proposed are used to compute the viscosities, thermal conductivities, and diffusion coefficients for molecular fluids and fluid mixtures. We are known for deriving and experimentally confirming the Fluctuation Theorem. This Theorem gives an elegant extension of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, so that it applies to finite systems observed for finite times. It also provides the first proof of the Second Law of Thermodynamics - it ceases to be a "Law". This theorem has important implications for nanotechnology. This result is exact for classical systems and quantum anologues are known.

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Evans, D. J., Williams, S.R., Searles, D.J. and Rondoni, L.R., 'On Typicality in Nonequilibrium Steady States', Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 164, pp. 842-857. Petersen, C, Evans, D & Williams, S 2016, 'Dissipation in monotonic and non-monotonic relaxation to equilibrium', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 144, pp.074107-1 -074107-8 . Petersen, C, Evans, D & Williams, S 2015, 'Mechanism for asymmetric bias in demonstrations of the NPI and fluctuation theorem', Molecular Simulation, pp. 1-12. Williams, S, Searles, D & Evans, D 2014, 'On the relationship between dissipation and the rate of spontaneous entropy production from linear irreversible thermodynamics', Molecular Simulation, vol. 40, no. 1-3, pp. 208-217. Petersen, C, Krausz, E, Evans, D et al 2014, 'Theoretical analysis of the fluctuation theorem applied to electric circuits', Communications in Theoretical Physics, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 476-484. Reid, J, Brookes, S, Evans, D et al 2014, 'The Dissipation Function: Its Relationship to Entropy Production, Theorems for Nonequilibrium Systems and Observations on its Extrema', in Dewar, R.C., Lineweaver, C.H., Niven, R.K., Regenauer-Lieb, K. (ed.), Beyond the second law, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 31-47. Searles, D, Johnston, B, Evans, D et al 2013, 'Time reversibility, correlation decay and the steady state fluctuation relation for dissipation', Entropy, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1503-1515. Reid, J, Williams, S, Searles, D et al 2013, 'Fluctuation relations and the foundations of statistical thermodynamics: a deterministic approach and numerical demonstration', in R Klages, W Just, C Jarzynski (ed.), Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Small Systems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GMBH, Weinheim, Germany, pp. 57-82. Petersen, C, Evans, D & Williams, S 2013, 'The instantaneous fluctuation theorem', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 139, no. 18, pp. 184106/1-5. Reid, J, Evans, D & Searles, D 2012, 'Communication: beyond Boltzmann's H-theorem: demonstration of the relaxation theorem for a non-monotonic approach to equilibrium', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 136, no. 2, pp. 021101/1-4. Aeberhard, P, Williams, S, Evans, D et al 2012, 'Ab initio Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics in the Solid Superionic Conductor LiBH4', Physical Review Letters, vol. 108, no. 9, pp. 095901/1-5. Bernardi, S, Brookes, S, Searles, D et al 2012, 'Response theory for confined systems', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 137, no. 7, pp. 074114/1-7. Evans, D, Williams, S & Rondoni, L 2012, 'A mathematical proof of the zeroth "law" of thermodynamics and the nonlinear Fourier "law" for heat flow', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 137, no. 19, pp. 194109/1-8. Gao, YX, Wang, GM, Williams, DRM, Williams SR, Sevick EM, 2012, 'Non-equilibrium umbrella sampling applied to force spectroscopy of soft matter', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 136, no. 5, pp. 054902. Evans, D, Williams, S & Searles, D 2011, 'A proof of Clausius' theorem for time reversible deterministic microscopic dynamics', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 134, no. 20, pp. 204113/1-7. Brookes, S, Reid, J, Evans, D et al 2011, 'The fluctuation theorem and dissipation theorem for Poiseuille flow', Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 297, no. 1, pp. 012017/1-12. Evans, D, Williams, S & Searles, D 2011, 'On the entropy of relaxing deterministic systems', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 135, no. 19-21, pp. 194107/1-6. Williams, S, Evans, D & Searles, D 2011, 'Nonequilibrium umbrella sampling and the functional Crooks Fluctuation Theorem', Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 145, no. 4, pp. 831-840. Evans, D, Searles, D, Reid, J et al 2010, 'Fluctuation Theorems and the foundations of statistical mechanics', Annual International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering (ICCE 2010), ed. Conference Program Committee, Sun Light Publishing Canada, Canada, pp. 411/1-2. Evans, D, Searles, D & Williams, S 2010, 'On the probability of violations of Fourier's law for heat flow in small systems observed for short times', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 132, no. 2, pp. 024501-1/10.