Annotations to Quantum Statistical Mechanics

ISBN-13: 9789814774154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 258 str.

In-Gee Kim

Opis

This book is a rewritten and annotated version of Leo P. Kadanoff and Gordon Baym’s lectures that were presented in the book Quantum Statistical Mechanics: Green’s Function Methods in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Problems.

Spis treści

1. Physical Prerequisites  2. Mathematical Introduction  3. Information Contained in G> and G<  4. The Hartree and Hartree-Fock Approximations  5. Effects of Collisions on G  6. A Technique for Deriving Green’s Function Approximations  7. Transport Phenomena  8. Hartree Approximation, Collision-Less Boltzmann Equation, and Random Phase Approximation  9. Relation Between Real and Imaginary Time Response Functions  10. Slowly Varying Disturbances and the Boltzmann Equation  11. Quasi-Equilibrium Behavior: Sound Propagation  12. The Landau Theory of the Normal Fermi Liquid  13. Shielded Potential  14. T Approximation

O autorze

In-Gee Kim is president of KimCNets, South Korea. He earned his PhD from Inha University, South Korea, in 2003, after which he worked with POSTECH, South Korea, as a post-doctoral researcher till 2005 and as an associate research professor till 2014. He was also with Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, as a post-doctoral research associate from 2004 to 2006. He moved to New Mexico Consortium, Inc., USA, in 2014 as associate research scientist and then to Lab021, LLC., South Korea, in 2016 as principal scientist. He was a research professor in Yonsei University, South Korea, till 2017.