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_erda
_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aQC174.4
_b.S35 2009
082 0 0 _a530.13/3
_222
100 1 _aSchieve, W. C.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aQuantum statistical mechanics /
_cWilliam C. Schieve, Lawrence P. Horwitz.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2009.
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 414 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aMany-body theory stands at the foundation of modern quantum statistical mechanics. It is introduced here to graduate students in physics, chemistry, engineering and biology. The book provides a contemporary understanding of irreversibility, particularly in quantum systems. It explains entropy production in quantum kinetic theory and in the master equation formulation of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. The first half of the book focuses on the foundations of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with emphasis on quantum mechanics. The second half of the book contains alternative views of quantum statistical mechanics, and topics of current interest for advanced graduate level study and research. Unique to textbooks on this subject, this book contains a discussion of the fundamental Gleason theorem. Quantum entanglements are treated in application to quantum computation and the difficulties arising from decoherence. The relativistic generalization of the Boltzmann equation is derived, and modern transport applications to reservoir ballistic transport are developed.
650 0 _aQuantum statistics.
700 1 _aHorwitz, L. P.
_q(Lawrence Paul),
_d1930-
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521841467
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511626555
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