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  title info:
    title: Thermal Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Dynamics
  name:
    name part: Millington, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXV, 215 p. 28 illus., 10 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The author develops a new perturbative formalism of non-equilibrium thermal quantum field theory for non-homogeneous backgrounds. As a result of this formulation, the author is able to show how so-called pinch singularities can be removed, without resorting to ad hoc prescriptions, or effective resummations of absorptive effects. Thus, the author arrives at a diagrammatic approach to non-equilibrium field theory, built from modified Feynman rules that are manifestly time-dependent from tree level. This new formulation provides an alternative framework in which to derive master time evolution equations for physically meaningful particle number densities, which are valid to all orders in perturbation theory and to all orders in gradient expansion. Once truncated in a loop-wise sense, these evolution equations capture non-equilibrium dynamics on all time-scales, systematically describing energy-violating processes and the non-Markovian evolution of memory effects.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Equilibrium Mechanics -- Introduction to Part I -- Classical Prerequisites -- Quantum Statistical Mechanics -- Correlation Functions -- Imaginary Time Formalism -- The Scalar Field -- Non-equilibrium Mechanics -- Introduction to Part II -- The CTP Formalism -- Non-Homogeneous Backgrounds -- The Thermodynamic Equilibrium Limit.
  note: by Peter Millington.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: String theory
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Physics
  classification: QC174.45-174.52
  classification: 530.14
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  identifier: 9783319011868
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01186-8
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    record change date: 20151030021136.0
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