Nonequilibrium Many-Body Theory of Quantum Systems

Autorentext
Gianluca Stefanucci is Professor of Condensed Matter Theory at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. His current research interests are in nonequilibrium quantum matter, low-dimensional systems, and time-resolved spectroscopy. He is the author of more than hundred research articles in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals. Robert van Leeuwen is Professor of Physics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His primary area of research is quantum many-body theory with a focus on non-equilibrium systems. Within this research field he has published more than hundred articles in distinguished, scientific journals.

Klappentext
"This comprehensively updated second edition introduces graduate students and researchers to nonequilibrium many-body quantum systems, time-resolved techniques, and ultrafast phenomena in modern science. Covering a rapidly evolving field, the book includes original material and rigorous derivations, insightful discussions and illustrative examples"--

Inhalt

Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Fundamental constants and basic relations; 1. Second quantization; 2. Getting familiar with second quantization: model Hamiltonians; 3. Time-dependent problems and equations of motion; 4. The contour idea; 5. Nonequilibrium Green's functions; 6. One-particle Green's function: exact results; 7. One-particle Green's function: diagrammatic expansion; 8. Hartree-Frock approximation; 9. Kadanoff-Baym equations; 10. Self-energy and screened interaction: exact results; 11. Grand potential: diagrammatic expansion and variational forms; 12. Conserving approximations; 13. Linear response theory; 14. Two-particle Green's function: diagrammatic expansion; 15. Electron gas: equilibrium and nonequilibrium correlation effects; 16. Green's functions for nonequilibrium fermion-boson systems; 17. From Green's functions to simplified many-body approaches; Appendices; References; Index.