Memory Effects in Irreversible Thermodynamics: Corrected Derivation of Transport Equations

Abstract

An error in an earlier paper [Phys. Rev. 124, 983 (1961)] is corrected. This error occurred in the derivation of nonlinear transport equations from a generalized Fokker-Planck equation, and took the form of neglecting certain fluctuations. When these are accounted for, the resulting transport equations contain fluctuation-renormalized transport coefficients.