Nonequilibrium Green's Functions Approach to Inhomogeneous Systems

• Main Authors: Balzer, Karsten (Author), Bonitz, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 867
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Quantum Physics.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Mathematical Physics.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.

This research monograph provides a pedagogical and self-contained introduction to non-equilibrium quantum particle dynamics for inhomogeneous systems, including a survey of recent breakthroughs pioneered by the authors and other groups. The theoretical approach is based on real-time Green’s function...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Introduction
• Quantum Many-Particle Systems out of Equilibrium
• Part II Theory
• Nonequilibrium Green`s Functions
• Part III Computational Methods
• Representations of the Nonequilibrium Green`s Function
• Computation of Equilibrium States and Time-Propatation
• Part IV Applications for Inhomogeneous Systems
• Lattice Systems
• Non-Lattics Systems
• Conclusion and Outlook
• Second Quantization
• Perturbation Expansion
• Index.