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Author Bányai, L. (Ladislaus)

Title Lectures on non-equilibrium theory of condensed matter / Ladislaus Alexander Bányai
Published New Jersey : World Scientific, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Introduction (why and how non-equilibrium?) -- 2. Time-reversal and evolution toward equilibrium -- 3. The 1D model of Caldeira and Leggett -- 4. The 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. The Boltzmann equation -- 10. Hydrodynamics as scaling of kinetic theory -- 11. Linear response to external perturbations -- 12. The Nyquist theorem -- 13. The Kubo formulae -- 14. Excitonic absorption in a semiconductor -- 15. The 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index
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Subject Condensed matter -- Mathematics
SCIENCE -- Physics -- Condensed Matter.
Condensed matter -- Mathematics
Form Electronic book
Author World Scientific (Firm)
ISBN 9789812773814
9812773819