Overview

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of dissipative quantum mechanics and explores related phenomena in condensed matter systems. Major experimental achievements in cooperation with theoretical advances have brightened the field and brought it to the attention of the general community in natural sciences. Nowadays, working knowledge of dissipative quantum mechanics is an essential tool for many physicists. This book - originally published in 1990 and republished in 1999 and and 2008 as enlarged second and third editions - delves significantly deeper than ever before into the fundamental concepts, methods and applications of quantum dissipative systems.This fourth edition provides a self-contained and updated account of the quantum mechanics of open systems and offers important new material including the most recent developments. The subject matter has been expanded by about fifteen percent. Many chapters have been completely rewritten to better cater to both the needs of newcomers to the field and the requests of the advanced readership. Two chapters have been added that account for recent progress in the field. This book should be accessible to all graduate students in physics. Researchers will find this a rich and stimulating source.

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Author:   Ulrich Weiss (Univ Stuttgart, Germany)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Edition:   4th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.839kg
ISBN:  

9789814374910

ISBN 10:   9814374911
Pages:   588
Publication Date:   08 March 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Fundamentals of Quantum Statistical Mechanics; Quantum Langevin and Master Equation Approaches; Imaginary-Time and Real-Time Approaches; Stochastic Unraveling; Quantum Decoherence, Pure Dephasing, and Relaxation; Quantum Brownian Motion; Electron Transfer and Incoherent Tunneling; Spin-Boson Model and Qubit; Driven Quantum Tunneling; Full Counting Statistics; Twisted Partition Function and Nonequilibrium Quantum Transport; and other papers.

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