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1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction (why and how non-equilibrium?) -- 2. Time-reversal and evolution toward equilibrium -- 3. The 1D model of Caldeira and Leggett -- 4. Classical polaron in a d.c. field -- 5. Schrodinger equation versus Master equation -- 6. Naive deduction of the rate equation from the equation of motion -- 7. Naive quantum kinetics -- 8. Diagonal Master equations and rate equations -- 9. Boltzmann equation -- 10. Hydrodynamics as scaling of kinetic theory -- 11. Linear response to external perturbations -- 12. Nyquist theorem -- 13. Kubo formulae -- 14. Excitonic absorption in a semiconductor -- 15. Longitudinal dielectric function of crystals -- 16. Charged particles interacting with the quantized electromagnetic field -- 17. Master equations for the density operator (reservoir theory) -- 18. Two-level atom interacting with light -- 19. Master equations for the density operator with particle-particle collisions (the super-projector approach) -- 20. Van Hove's weak coupling limit and Davies's generalization -- 21. Bose-Einstein condensation in real time -- 22. Real-time experiments : ultra-short-time spectroscopy -- 23. Keldysh's non-equilibrium Green functions -- 24. Keldysh-Green functions and time-reversal -- 25. Time-dependent Hartree-Fock treatment of Coulomb interaction : the exciton -- 26. Quantum kinetics of electrons and holes scattered by LO phonons within the s.c. RPA and the Kadanoff-Baym approximation -- 27. Full two-time quantum-kinetics of electrons and holes scattered by LO phonons within the s.c. RPA -- 28. Coulomb quantum kinetics of electrons and holes within the s.c. RPA and the Kadanoff-Baym approximation. Time dependent screening -- 29. Full two-time quantum kinetics of an electron-hole Coulomb system : Ward identities -- App. A. H-theorem for bosons. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Condensed matter -- Mathematics.
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Condensed matter -- Mathematics. |
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Condensed matter. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
World Scientific (Firm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9812567496 |
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Print version: 9789812567499 |
| ISBN |
9789812773814 (electronic book) |
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9812773819 (electronic book) |
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