Quantum Dissipative Systems (Third Edition)
3rd Edition
Published on 19. March 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-981-279-162-7 (ISBN)
Description
Major advances in the quantum theory of macroscopic systems, in combination with stunning experimental achievements, have brightened the field and brought it to the attention of the general community in natural sciences. Today, working knowledge of dissipative quantum mechanics is an essential tool for many physicists. This book - originally published in 1990 and republished in 1999 as an enlarged second edition - delves much deeper than ever before into the fundamental concepts, methods, and applications of quantum dissipative systems, including the most recent developments.In this third edition, 26 chapters from the second edition contain additional material and several chapters are completely rewritten. It deals with the phenomena and theory of decoherence, relaxation, and dissipation in quantum mechanics that arise from the interaction with the environment. In so doing, a general path integral description of equilibrium thermodynamics and nonequilibrium dynamics is developed.
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in quantum-statistical and condensed matter physics, quantum/classical mechanics, quantum information and computation, and quantum optics.
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
753 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-279-162-7 (9789812791627)
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Content
Fundamentals; Survey of the Various Approaches; Path Integral Description of Open Quantum Systems; Imaginary-Time and Real-Time Approaches; Influence Functional Method; Phenomenological and Microscopic System-Plus-Reservoir Models; Linear and Nonlinear Quantum Environments; Ohmic, Super-Ohmic, and Sub-Ohmic Dissipation; Quantum Decoherence and Relaxation; Correlation Functions, Response Functions, and Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem; Damped Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator; Quantum Brownian Motion; Thermodynamic Variational Approach and Effective Potential Method; Unified Approach to Quantum-Statistical Metastability: From Thermal Activation to Quantum Tunneling; Electron Transfer and Incoherent Tunneling; Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Josephson Systems; Spin-Boson Model and Qubit; Dissipative Two-State System: Thermodynamics and Dynamics; Single-Charge and Cooper-Pair Tunneling; Magnetic and Spin Tunneling; Driven Quantum Tunneling; Nonequilibrium Quantum Transport; Full Counting Statistics; Charge Transport in Quantum Impurity Systems; Duality and Self-Duality.