Nonequilibrium Green's Functions Approach to Inhomogeneous Systems

ISBN-13: 9783642350818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 130 str.

Karsten Balzer;Michael Bonitz

Opis

This book offers a self-contained introduction to non-equilibrium
quantum particle dynamics for inhomogeneous systems, including a survey of recent breakthroughs pioneered by the authors and others. The approach is based on real-time Green s functions."

Spis treści

Part I Introduction.- Quantum Many-Particle Systems out of Equilibrium.- Part II Theory.- Nonequilibrium Green`s Functions.- Part III Computational Methods.- Representations of the Nonequilibrium Green`s Function.- Computation of Equilibrium States and Time-Propatation.- Part IV Applications for Inhomogeneous Systems.- Lattice Systems.- Non-Lattics Systems.- Conclusion and Outlook.- Second Quantization.- Perturbation Expansion.- Index.

O autorze

The lead author has already published an edited volume with Springer: Introduction to Complex Plasmas; Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, Vol. 59
Bonitz, Michael; Horing, Norman; Ludwig, Patrick (Eds.)
1st Edition., 2010, XVII, 447 p. 225 illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-642-10591-3
It is however not a related title topicwise (thus not included in the list below)

Blurb

This research monograph provides a pedagogical and self-contained introduction to non-equilibrium quantum particle dynamics for inhomogeneous systems, including a survey of recent breakthroughs pioneered by the authors and other groups.
The theoretical approach is based on real-time Green’s functions (Keldysh Green’s functions), directly solving the two-time Kadanoff-Baym equations (KBE).
This field has seen a rapid development over the last decade, with new applications emerging in plasma physics, semiconductor optics and transport, nuclear matter and high-energy physics.  
This text will be a valuable starting point and reference work for graduate students and researchers interested in the quantum dynamics of inhomogeneous systems.