
Quantum Dissipative Systems (Fourth Edition)
Ulrich Weiss(Author)
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
4th Edition
Published on 8. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
588 pages
978-981-4374-91-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students; researchers in quantum statistical and condensed matter physics, in quantum/classical mechanics, in quantum information and quantum state engineering, in quantum optics, and in Bose-condensed systems.
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
840 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4374-91-0 (9789814374910)
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Quantum Dissipative Systems (Third Edition)
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03/2008
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Ulrich Weiss has been Professor of Physics at the University of Stuttgart since 1975. As guest scientist or visiting professor, he has spent extended periods of time at various research institutions in USA, France, and Italy. He has made numerous contributions to nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, quantum statistical and quantum dissipative physics, and condensed matter physics.
Content
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.