This research monograph provides a pedagogical and self-contained introduction to non-equilibrium quantum particle dynamics for inhomogeneous systems, up to and 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.
Author(s): Karsten Balzer, Michael Bonitz (auth.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 867
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 130
Tags: Mathematical Methods in Physics;Quantum Physics;Numerical and Computational Physics;Mathematical Physics;Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Quantum Many-Particle Systems out of Equilibrium....Pages 3-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Nonequilibrium Green’s Functions....Pages 15-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Representations of the Nonequilibrium Green’s Function....Pages 41-54
Computation of Equilibrium States and Time-Propagation....Pages 55-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Lattice Systems....Pages 75-82
Non-Lattice Systems....Pages 83-104
Conclusion and Outlook....Pages 105-107
Back Matter....Pages 109-130
