Nonequilibrium Green's Functions Approach to Inhomogeneous Systems [electronic resource] /
Balzer, Karsten.author.
Bonitz, Michael.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I Introduction -- Quantum Many-Particle Systems out of Equilibrium -- Part II Theory -- Nonequilibrium Green`s Functions -- Part III Computational Methods -- Representations of the Nonequilibrium Green`s 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.
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.
Physics.
Quantum physics.
Mathematical physics.
Mathematical Methods in Physics.
Quantum Physics.
Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.
Mathematical Physics.
Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.