Professor Denis J. Evans
B.Sc. (Hons 1) Physics, PhD Physics, AM, FAA, FRACI
Professor Research School of Physics and Engineering
ANU College of Science
Areas of expertise
- Statistical Mechanics In Chemistry 030704
- Statistical Mechanics, Physical Combinatorics And Mathematical Aspects Of Condensed Matter 010506
- Fluid Physics 020303
- Chemical Thermodynamics And Energetics 030602
- Thermodynamics And Statistical Physics 020304
Biography
I gained my bachelor's degree from the University of Sydney and my doctorate from the Australian National University.
I have been a postdoc at Oxford University UK, the National Bureau of Standards USA (now NIST) and Cornell University USA.
I have been a visiting professor at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematics at Cambridge UK, the Institute Henri Poincare University of Paris V FRance, the Nordic Institute for Mathematical Physics Stockholm Sweden and the Erwin Schrodinger Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna Austria.
Publications
- Petersen, C, Evans, D & Williams, S 2016, 'Mechanism for asymmetric bias in demonstrations of the NPI and fluctuation theorem', Molecular Simulation, vol. 42, no. 6-7, pp. 531-541.
- 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 .
- 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. 184106-184106.
- 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. 21101-21101.
- 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. 74114-74114.
- 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. 194109-194109.
- 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. 204113-204113.
- Brookes, S, Reid, J, Evans, D et al 2011, 'The fluctuation theorem and dissipation theorem for Poiseuille flow', Journal of Physics: Conference Series(online), 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, pp. 194107-194107.
- 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. 24501-24501.
- Evans, D, Searles, D & Williams, S 2010, 'The covariant dissipation function for transient nonequilibrium states', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 133, no. 5, pp. 54507-54507.
- Williams, S & Evans, D 2010, 'Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Umbrella Sampling', Physical Review Letters, vol. 105, no. 11, pp. 110601/1-4.
- Evans, D, Williams, S & Searles, D 2010, 'Thermodynamics of Small Systems', in Radons, Rumpf, Schuster (ed.), Nonlinear Dynamics of Nanosystems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GMBH, Germany, pp. 75-110.
- Evans, D, Searles, D & Williams, S 2010, 'Musings on thermostats', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 133, no. 10, pp. 104106-104106.
- Williams, S & Evans, D 2010, 'The rheology of solid glass', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 132, no. 18, pp. 184105/1-184105/14.
- Williams, S & Evans, D 2009, 'Viscoelastic properties of crystals', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 131, no. 2, pp. 024115/1-9.
- Evans, D, Searles, D & Williams, S 2009, 'A Simple Mathematical Proof of Boltzmann's Equal a priori Probability Hypothesis', Diffusion Fundamentals III: Basic principles of theory, experiment and application, ed. Chmelik C, Kanellopoulos N, Karger J, Theodorou D, Leipziger Universitatsverlag, Leipzig, pp. 367- 374.
- Evans, D, Searles, D & Williams, S 2009, 'Dissipation and the relaxation to equilibrium', Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, vol. 2009/07, pp. P07029/1-11.
- Dasmeh, P, Searles, D, Ajloo, D et al 2009, 'On violations of Le Chatelier's principle for a temperature change in small systems observed for short times', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 131, no. 21, pp. 214503/1-214503/7.
- Evans, D, Searles, D & Williams, S 2008, 'On the fluctuation theorem for the dissipation function and its connection with response theory', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 014504/1-6.
- Williams, S & Evans, D 2008, 'Time-dependent response theory and nonequilibrium free-energy relations', Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 021119/1-021119/7.
- Williams, S, Searles, D & Evans, D 2008, 'The glass transition and the Jarzynski equality', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 129, no. 13, pp. 134504/1-134504/12.
- Williams, S & Evans, D 2008, 'Statistical Mechanics of Time Independent Non-Dissipative Nonequilibrium States', International Workshop on Complex Systems 2007, ed. Tokuyama M, Oppenheim I, Nishiyama H, American Institute of Physics (AIP), New York USA, pp. 74-78.
- Evans, D & Morriss, G 2008, Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Liquids (2nd ed), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.
- Williams, S, Searles, D & Evans, D 2008, 'Nonequilibrium Free-Energy Relations for Thermal Changes', Physical Review Letters, vol. 100, no. 25, pp. 250601/1-250601/4.
- Searles, D & Evans, D 2008, 'Fluctuation relations, free energy calculations and irreversibility', in Alan Hinchliffe (ed.), Chemical Modelling: Applications and Theory. Volume 5, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, pp. 182-197.
- Williams, S, Searles, D & Evans, D 2007, 'Deterministic derivation of non-equilibrium free energy theorems for natural isothermal isobaric systems', Molecular Physics, vol. 105, no. 8, pp. 1059-1066.
- Mittag, E, Evans, D & Williams, S 2007, 'Verification of time-reversibility requirement for systems satisfying the Evans-Searles fluctuation theorem', Pure and Applied Chemistry, vol. 79, no. 8, pp. 1361-1368.
- Williams, S, Evans, D & Mittag, E 2007, 'Negative entropy production in oscillatory processes', Academie des Sciences Comptes Rendus: Physique, vol. 8, no. 5-6, pp. 620-624.
- Searles, D, Rondoni, L & Evans, D 2007, 'The Steady State Fluctuation Relation for the Dissipation Function', Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 128, no. 6, pp. 1337-1363.
- Carberry, D, Baker, M, Wang, G et al. 2007, 'An optical trap experiment to demonstrate fluctuation theorems in viscoelastic media', Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. S204-S214.
- Williams, S & Evans, D 2007, 'Statistical mechanics of time independent nondissipative nonequilibrium states', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 127, no. 18, pp. 184101-1-184101-13.
- Evans, D & Morriss, G 2007, Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Liquids, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Williams, S & Evans, D 2006, 'Linear Response Domain in Glassy Systems', Physical Review Letters, vol. 96, no. 1, pp. 015701/1-4.
- Williams, S, Searles, D & Evans, D 2006, 'Numerical study of the steady fluctuation relations far from equilibrium', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 124, no. 19, pp. 194102/1-9.
- Wang, G, Reid, J, Carberry, D et al. 2005, 'Experimental study of the fluctuation theorem in a nonequilibrium steady state', Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 046142/1-11.
- Evans, D, Searles, D & Rondoni, L 2005, 'Application of the Gallavotti-Cohen fluctuation relation to thermostated steady states near equilibrium', Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 056120/1-12.
- Bright, J, Evans, D & Searles, D 2005, 'New observations regarding deterministic, time-reversible thermostats and Gausss principle of least constraint', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 122, no. 19, pp. 194106/1-8.
- Wang, G, Carberry, D, Reid, J et al. 2005, 'Demonstration of the steady-state fluctuation theorem from a single trajectory', Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 17, no. 45, pp. S3239-S3244.
- Evans, D 2005, 'The Fluctuation Theorem and its Implications for Materials Processing and Modeling', in Sidney Yip, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ed.), Handbook of Materials Modeling Part A.Methods. Part B. Models, Springer, P.O. Box17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 2773-2776pp.
- Reid, J, Sevick, E & Evans, D 2005, 'A unified description of two theorems in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics: The fluctuation theorem and the work relation', Europhysics Letters, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 726-732.
- Evans, D 2005, 'Relation between two proposed fluctuation theorems', Molecular Simulation, vol. 31, no. 6-7, pp. 389-391.
- Searles, D & Evans, D 2004, 'Fluctuations Relations for Nonequilibrium Systems', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 57, no. 12, pp. 1119-1123.
- Jepps, O, Evans, D & Searles, D 2004, 'The fluctuation theorem and Lyapunov weights', Physica D, vol. 187, no. 1-4, pp. 326-337.
- Williams, S, Searles, D & Evans, D 2004, 'Independence of the transient fluctuation theorem to thermostatting details', Physical Review E, vol. 70, pp. 066113-1-6.
- Delhommelle, J, Petravic, J & Evans, D 2004, 'Non-Newtonian behaviour in simple fluids', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 120, no. 13, pp. 6117-6123.
- Reid, J, Carberry, D, Wang, G et al. 2004, 'Reversibility in nonequilibrium trajectories of an optically trapped particle', Physical Review E, vol. 70, pp. 016111-1 -9.
- Carberry, D, Williams, S, Wang, G et al. 2004, 'The Kawasaki Identity and the Fluctuation Theorem', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 121, no. 17, pp. 8179-8182.
- Carberry, D, Reid, J, Wang, G et al. 2004, 'Fluctuations and Irreversibility: An Experimental Demonstration of a Second-Law-Like Theorem Using a Colloidal Particle Held in an Optical Trap', Physical Review Letters, vol. 92, no. 14, pp. 140601-1 - 4.
- Delhommelle, J, Petravic, J & Evans, D 2003, 'Reexamination of string phase and shear thickening in simple fluids', Physical Review E, vol. 68, pp. 031201-1 - 031201-6.
- Hess, S, Kroger, M & Evans, D 2003, 'Crossover between short-and long-time behaviour of stress fluctuations and viscoelasticity of liquids', Physical Review E, vol. 67, pp. 042201-1 - 042201-4.
- Delhommelle, J, Petravic, J & Evans, D 2003, 'On the effects of assuming flow profiles in nonequilibrium simulations', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 119, no. 21, pp. 11005-11010.
- Mittag, E & Evans, D 2003, 'Time-dependent fluctuation theorem', Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 67, pp. 026113-1 026113-5.
- Evans, D 2003, 'A non-equilibrium free energy theorem for deterministic systems', Molecular Physics, vol. 101, no. 10, pp. 1551-1554.
- Wang, G, Sevick, E, Mittag, E et al. 2002, 'Experimental demonstration of violations of the second law of thermodynamics for small systems and short time scales', Physical Review Letters, vol. 89, no. 5, pp. 050601/1-050601/4.
- Mittag, E, Searles, D & Evans, D 2002, 'Isobaric-isothermal fluctuation theorem', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 116, no. 16, pp. 6875-6879.
- Borzsak, I, Cummings, P & Evans, D 2002, 'Shear viscosity of a simple fluid over a wide range of strain rates', Molecular Physics, vol. 100, no. 16, pp. 2735-2738.
- Evans, D & Searles, D 2002, 'The Fluctuation Theorem', Advances in Physics, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 1529-1585.
- Lue, L, Jepps, O, Delhommelle, J et al 2002, 'Configurational thermostats for molecular systems', Molecular Physics, vol. 100, no. 14, pp. 2387-2395.
- Evans, D & Rondoni, L 2002, 'Comments on the entropy of nonequilibrium steady states', Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 109, no. 3/4, pp. 895-920.
- Delhommelle, J & Evans, D 2002, 'Correspondence between configurational temperature and molecular kinetic temperature thermostats', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 117, no. 13, pp. 6016-6021.
- Delhommelle, J & Evans, D 2002, 'Poiseuille flow of a micropolar fluid', Molecular Physics, vol. 100, no. 17, pp. 2857-2865.
- Ennis-King, J & Evans, D 2001, 'Configurational temperature for Brownian dynamics', Molecular Simulation, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 147-155.
- Zhang, F, Isbister, D & Evans, D 2001, 'Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics studies of heat flow in one-dimensional systems', International Journal of Thermophysics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 135-147.
- Ayton, G, Evans, D & Searles, D 2001, 'A local fluctuation theorem', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 115, no. 5, pp. 2033-2037.
- Evans, D, Searles, D & Mittag, E 2001, 'Fluctuation theorem for Hamiltonian systems: Le Chateliers principle', Physical Review E, vol. 63, no. 5-1, pp. 051105/1-4.
- Hess, S & Evans, D 2001, 'Computation of the viscosity of a liquid from time averages of stress fluctuations', Physical Review E, vol. 64, no. 1-1, pp. 011207/1-6.
- Searles, D & Evans, D 2001, 'Fluctuation theorem for heat flow', International Journal of Thermophysics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 123-134.
- Delhommelle, J & Evans, D 2001, 'Configurational temperature profile in confined fluids. I. Atomic fluid', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 114, no. 14, pp. 6229-6235.
- McPhie, M, Daivis, P, Snook, I et al 2001, 'Generalised Langevin equation for nonequilibrium systems', Physica A: Statistical mechanics and its applications, vol. 299, pp. 412-426.
- Delhommelle, J & Evans, D 2001, 'Comparison of thermostatting mechanisms in NVT and NPT simulations of decane under shear', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 115, no. 1, pp. 43-49.
- Delhommelle, J & Evans, D 2001, 'Configurational temperature profile in confined fluids. II. Molecular fluids', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 114, no. 14, pp. 6236-6241.
- Delhommelle, J & Evans, D 2001, 'Configurational temperature thermostat for fluids undergoing shear flow: application to liquid chlorine', Molecular Physics, vol. 99, no. 21, pp. 1825-1829.
- Zhang, F, Isbister, D & Evans, D 2001, 'Multiple nonequilibrium steady states for one-dimensional heat flow', Physical Review E, vol. 64, pp. 021102/1-5.
- Jepps, O, Ayton, G & Evans, D 2000, 'Microscopic expressions for the thermodynamic temperature', Physical Review E, vol. 62, pp. 4757-4763.
- Lue, L & Evans, D 2000, 'Configurational temperature for systems with constraints', Physical Review E, vol. 62, pp. 4764-4768.
- Zhang, F, Isbister, D & Evans, D 2000, 'Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of heat flow in one-dimensional lattices', Physical Review E, vol. 61, pp. 3541-3546.
- Searles, D & Evans, D 2000, 'The fluctuation theorem and Green-Kubo relations', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 112, pp. 9727-9735.
- Searles, D & Evans, D 2000, 'Ensemble dependence of the transient fluctuation theorem', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 113, pp. 3503-3509.
- Evans, D, Cohen, E, Searles, D et al 2000, 'Note on the Kaplan-Yorke Dimension and Linear Transport Coefficients', Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 101, pp. 17-34.
- Evans, D & Jepps, O 1999, 'On the validity of Fouriers law in systems with spatially varying strain rates', Molecular Physics, vol. 96, pp. 915-920.
- Ayton, G & Evans, D 1999, 'On the asymptotic convergence of the transient and steady-state fluctuation theorems', Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 97, pp. 811-815.
- Zhang, F & Evans, D 1999, 'Kinetic energy conserving integrators for Gaussian thermostatted SLLOD', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 111, pp. 18-26.
- Searles, D & Evans, D 1999, 'Fluctuation theorem for stochastic systems', Physical Review E, vol. 60, pp. 159-164.
- Travis, K, Searles, D & Evans, D 1999, 'On the wavevector dependent shear viscosity of a simple fluid', Molecular Physics, vol. 97, pp. 415-422.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Properties of non-equilibrium steady states EXTERNALLY LED UQ (Secondary Investigator)
- Understanding dissipation, thermal conduction and diffusion in superionic conductors using ab initio nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation EXTERNALLY LED UQ (Secondary Investigator)
- Dissipation and relaxation in statistical mechanics (Primary Investigator)
