The Zwanzig projection operator is a mathematical device used in statistical mechanics. This projection operator acts in the linear space of phase space...

dynamical systems Nakajima–Zwanzig equation Zwanzig projection operator An analogous derivation can be found in, e.g., Robert Zwanzig Nonequilibrium Statistical...

the work of Leon van Hove. The projection operator formalism later found wide application and is now known as the Zwanzig-Mori formalism (also named after...

candidates. This division can be expressed formally with the Zwanzig projection operator. Nevertheless, the derivation is not completely rigorous from...

Mori-Zwanzig formalism within the statistical mechanics of irreversible processes (named after Hazime Mori). By means of a projection operator, the dynamics...

{P}}\rho } . One such derivation using the projection operator technique results in what is known as the Nakajima–Zwanzig equation. This derivation highlights...