Quantum mechanics and its emergent macrophysics
By: Geoffrey L. Sewell.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Quantum theory.; Quantum statistics.; Statistical thermodynamics.; Phase transformations (Statistical physics); Electrodynamics.; Superconductivity.
Description: x, 292 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introductory discussion of quantum macrophysics; title: The generalised quantum mechanical framework; title: On symmetry, entropy and order; title: Reversibility, irreversibility and macroscopic causality; title: Thermal equilibrium states and phases; title: Equilibrium thermodynamics and phase structure; title: Macrostatistics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics; title: Brief historical survey of theories of superconductivity; title: Off-diagonal long range order and superconductive electrodynamics; title: Schematic approach to a theory of nonequilibrium phase transitions, order and chaos; title: Laser model as a paradigm of nonequilibrium phase structures.