Quantum dissipative systems
Weiss, Ulrich
Quantum dissipative systems - 3rd - Singapore: World Scientific, 2008. - xviii; 507 p. pb; 23 cm. - Series in modern condensed matter physics .
Major advances in the quantum theory of macroscopic systems, in combination with stunning experimental achievements, have brightened the field and brought it to the attention of the general community in natural sciences. Today, working knowledge of dissipative quantum mechanics is an essential tool for many physicists. This book - originally published in 1990 and republished in 1999 as an enlarged second edition - delves much deeper than ever before into the fundamental concepts, methods, and applications of quantum dissipative systems, including the most recent developments. In this third edition, 26 chapters from the second edition contain additional material and several chapters are completely rewritten. It deals with the phenomena and theory of decoherence, relaxation, and dissipation in quantum mechanics that arise from the interaction with the environment. In so doing, a general path integral description of equilibrium thermodynamics and nonequilibrium dynamics is developed.
9789812791627
Integrals, Path
Path Integrals
Physics
Atomic Physics
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Theory
530.12 WEI
Quantum dissipative systems - 3rd - Singapore: World Scientific, 2008. - xviii; 507 p. pb; 23 cm. - Series in modern condensed matter physics .
Major advances in the quantum theory of macroscopic systems, in combination with stunning experimental achievements, have brightened the field and brought it to the attention of the general community in natural sciences. Today, working knowledge of dissipative quantum mechanics is an essential tool for many physicists. This book - originally published in 1990 and republished in 1999 as an enlarged second edition - delves much deeper than ever before into the fundamental concepts, methods, and applications of quantum dissipative systems, including the most recent developments. In this third edition, 26 chapters from the second edition contain additional material and several chapters are completely rewritten. It deals with the phenomena and theory of decoherence, relaxation, and dissipation in quantum mechanics that arise from the interaction with the environment. In so doing, a general path integral description of equilibrium thermodynamics and nonequilibrium dynamics is developed.
9789812791627
Integrals, Path
Path Integrals
Physics
Atomic Physics
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Theory
530.12 WEI
