Quantum Kinetic Theory
This book presents quantum kinetic theory in a comprehensive way. The focus is on density operator methods and on non-equilibrium Green functions. The theory allows to rigorously treat nonequilibrium dynamics in quantum many-body systems. Of particular in
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Quantum Kinetic Theory Second Edition
Quantum Kinetic Theory
Michael Bonitz
Quantum Kinetic Theory Second Edition
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Michael Bonitz Institut für Theoretische Physik Universität Kiel Kiel Germany
Originally published by B.G. Teubner, Leipzig, 1998 ISBN 978-3-319-24119-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24121-0
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Preface to the Second Edition
Quite quickly after its publication, this book was unavailable calling for a second edition. However, with my move to Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel in 2003 there was no time to tackle this task. The good thing about this time gap is that a critical and a less-biased look at the field and its coverage in the book became possible. It is satisfactory to realize that the (very enthusiastic) perspectives for the subject of field–matter interaction and nonequilibrium many-body theory expressed in the first edition turned out to be completely justified. Certainly, some of the fields that were in the focus before, such as semiconductor optics or laser–plasma interaction, have reached some maturity. At the same time, new fields that are facing very similar problems have undergone a rapid development that is driven by the amazing progress in attosecond laser technology [1, 2]. This includes the fields of attosecond atomic and molecular physics and the dynamics of ultracold atoms in traps and optical lattices, to name just two. The challenges for many-body physics in general and short-time approaches, in particular, have not faded. The opposite is true: The need for a time-dependent description of correlated quantum systes has grown steadily. Fortunately, the rapid growth in computat
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