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Informationen zum Autor Alex Kamenev is a Professor in the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) and the Department of Physics at the University of Minnesota. Since gaining his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1996! he has held a postdoctoral position at the University of California! Santa Barbara! and the assistant professorship at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). Klappentext Step-by-step treatment of the modern functional approach to non-equilibrium field-theoretical methods for graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics. Zusammenfassung A self-contained presentation of the modern functional approach to non-equilibrium field-theoretical methods! this book gives a step-by-step treatment of the subject! with particular emphasis to the pedagogical aspects. It is an ideal reference for advanced graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Bosons; 3. Single particle quantum mechanics; 4. Classical stochastic systems; 5. Bosonic fields; 6. Dynamics of collisionless plasma; 7. Kinetics of Bose condensates; 8. Dynamics of phase transitions; 9. Fermions; 10. Quantum transport; 11. Disordered fermionic systems; 12. Mesoscopic effects; 13. Electron-electron interactions in disordered metals; 14. Dynamics of disordered superconductors; References; Index.
