Reference for graduate students and researchers in particle physics, gravitation, cosmology, atomic-optical and condensed matter physics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. Fundamentals of Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: 1. Basic issues in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; 2. Relaxation, dissipation, noise and fluctuations; 3. Quantum open systems; Part II. Basics of Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory: 4. Quantum fields on time-dependent backgrounds: particle creation; 5. Open systems of interacting quantum fields; 6. Functional methods in nonequilibrium QFT; Part III. Gauge Invariance, Dissipation, Entropy, Noise and Decoherence: 7. Closed time path effective action for gauge theories; 8. Dissipation and noise in mean field dynamics; 9. Entropy generation and decoherence of quantum fields; Part IV. Thermal, Kinetic and Hydrodynamic Regimes: 10. Thermal field and linear response theory; 11. Quantum kinetic field theory; 12. Hydrodynamics and thermalization; 13. Nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates; 14. Nonequilibrium issues in RHICs and DCCs; 15. Nonequilibrium quantum processes in the early universe; References; Index.
