ABSTRACT
If you have studied equilibrium thermodynamics and/or statistical physics, and had some time left, you might have encountered the problem of non-equilibrium effects. For example, in equilibrium thermodynamics the temperatures of two objects in thermal contact, like Scotch and ice cubes, are the same. In non-equilibrium thermodynamics, we learn how quickly heat can diffuse from the warmer to the colder object, that is how long it takes to establish equilibrium. Similarly, in the scaling theory of phase transitions, shortly after static scaling laws were invented during the 1960s they were generalized to cover time-dependent or non-equilibrium effects like the thermal conductivity near the superfluid transition or the spin wave spectrum near the ferromagnetic Curie point (Hohenberg and Halperin, 1977). We now look for something similar in the percolation field.
