Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Statistical Mechanics Continuous

This monograph is devoted to quantum statistical mechanics. It can be regarded as a continuation of the book "Mathematical Foundations of Classical Statistical Mechanics. Continuous Systems" (Gordon & Breach SP, 1989) written together with my colleagu

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MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS STUDIES

Series Editor: M. FLATO, Universite de Bourgogne. Dijon. France

VOLUME 17

Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Statistical Mechanics Continuous Systems

by

D. Ya. Petrina Institute 0/ Mathematics, Ukrainian Academy 0/ Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine

SPRINGER SClENCE+ BUSINESS MED~ B.V.

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ISBN 978-94-010-4083-9 ISBN 978-94-011-0185-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-0185-1

The manuscript was translated from the Russian by P.V. Malyshev and D.V. Malyshev

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Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1995

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conTEnTS Introduction

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CHAPTER 1. EVOLUTION OF STATES OF QUANTUM SYSTEMS OF FINITELY MANY PARTICLES 1. Principal Concepts of Quantum Mechanics 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5.

The Fock Space Evolution of States for the Systems with Random Number of Particles Second Quantization SchrMinger Equation in the Case of Second Quantization

3. Evolution of States in the Heisenberg Representation and in the Interaction Representation 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4.

Heisenberg Equations Interaction Representation Evolution Operator Second Quantization and the Heisenberg Representation in the Momentum Space 3.5. The Frohlich Hamiltonian

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Mathematical Supplement I 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5.

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SchrOdinger Equation and the Evolution of States of Finitely Many Particles 1 Density Matrix. Equation for Density Matrix 3 9 Algebra of Observables. States on This Algebra 11 SchrOdinger and Heisenberg Representations Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Statistics 13

2. Evolution of States of Quantum Systems with Arbitrarily Many Particles 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4.

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Selfadjoint Operators Kato's Criterion of Selfadjointness Representation of Operators in Terms of Their Kernels Solution of the SchrOdinger Equation On the Convergence of Series (3.33) for the Evolution Operator

References

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Contents

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CHAPTER 2. EVOLUTION OF STATES OF INFINITE QUANTUM SYSTEMS

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4. Bogolyubov Equations for Statistical Operators

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4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4.

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Sequence of Statistical Operators Sequence of Statistical Operators in the Grand Canonical Ensemble Equations for Statistical Operators Statistical Operators and Bogolyubov Equations in Terms of the Second Quantization Operators

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5. Solution of the Bogolyubov Equations

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5.1. Statement of the Problem 5.2. Group of Evolution Operators

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5.3. Infinitesimal Generator of the Group V A (t) 5.4. Feynman Integral

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6. Gibbs Distributions

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6.1. Stationary Solutions of Bogolyubov Equations and E