Nonequilibrium Green's functions approach to inhomogeneous systems Karsten Balzer, Michael Bonitz

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balzer, Karsten

Contributor:

Bonitz, Michael, 1960-

Series:

Lecture notes in physics ; 0075-8450 867

Lecture notes in physics 1616-6361 v. 867

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Green's functions.

Many-body problem.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg New York Springer ©2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Part I Introduction

Quantum Many-Particle Systems out of Equilibrium

Part II Theory

Nonequilibrium Greens̀ Functions

Part III Computational Methods

Representations of the Nonequilibrium Greens̀ 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Print version Balzer, Karsten. Nonequilibrium green's function approach to inhomogeneous systems

ISBN:

9783642350825

3642350828

OCLC:

822977319

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