Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I FUNDAMENTALS OF NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS
- 1 Basic issues in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
- 2 Relaxation, dissipation, noise and fluctuations
- 3 Quantum open systems
- II BASICS OF NONEQUILIBRIUM QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
- III GAUGE INVARIANCE, DISSIPATION, ENTROPY, NOISE AND DECOHERENCE
- IV THERMAL, KINETIC AND HYDRODYNAMIC REGIMES
- V APPLICATIONS TO SELECTED CURRENT RESEARCH
- References
- Index
2 - Relaxation, dissipation, noise and fluctuations
from I - FUNDAMENTALS OF NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I FUNDAMENTALS OF NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS
- 1 Basic issues in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
- 2 Relaxation, dissipation, noise and fluctuations
- 3 Quantum open systems
- II BASICS OF NONEQUILIBRIUM QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
- III GAUGE INVARIANCE, DISSIPATION, ENTROPY, NOISE AND DECOHERENCE
- IV THERMAL, KINETIC AND HYDRODYNAMIC REGIMES
- V APPLICATIONS TO SELECTED CURRENT RESEARCH
- References
- Index
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- Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory , pp. 39 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008