Stochastic processes in physics and chemistry / N.G. van Kampen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kampen, N. G. van.

Contributor:

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Series:

North-Holland personal library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stochastic processes.

Statistical physics.

Chemistry, Physical and theoretical--Statistical methods.

Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.

Physical Description:

xvi, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : Elsevier, 2007.

Summary:

The third edition of Van Kampen's standard work has been revised and updated. The main difference with the second edition is that the contrived application of the quantum master equation in section 6 of chapter XVII has been replaced with a satisfactory treatment of quantum fluctuations. Apart from that throughout the text corrections have been made and a number of references to later developments have been included. From the recent textbooks the following are the most relevant.

C.W.Gardiner, Quantum Optics (Springer, Berlin 1991) D.T. Gillespie, Markov Processes (Academic Press, San Diego 1992) W.T. Coffey, Yu.P.Kalmykov, and J.T.Waldron, The Langevin Equation (2nd edition, World Scientific, 2004) * Comprehensive coverage of fluctuations and stochastic methods for describing them * A must for students and researchers in applied mathematics, physics and physical chemistry

Notes:

Previous ed.: Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9780444529657

0444529659

OCLC:

81453662