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Informationen zum Autor Gianluca Stefanucci is Researcher at the Physics Department of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. His current research interests are in quantum transport through nanostructures and nonequilibrium open systems. Robert van Leeuwen is Professor of Physics at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. His main areas of research are time-dependent quantum systems, many-body theory and quantum transport through nanostructures. Klappentext A pedagogical introduction to nonequilibrium theory, time-dependent phenomena and excited state properties, for graduate students and researchers. Zusammenfassung A unique! self-contained introduction to nonequilibrium many-body theory! with a focus on the time-dependent aspect. Topics range from basic quantum mechanics to nonequilibrium Green's function formalisms! and with full derivations of every result and an abundance of illustrative examples! this accessible book is ideal for graduate students and researchers alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Second quantization; 2. Getting familiar with second quantization: model Hamiltonians; 3. Time-dependent problems and equations of motion; 4. The contour idea; 5. Many-particle Green's functions; 6. One-particle Green's function; 7. Mean field approximations; 8. Conserving approximations: two-particle Green's function; 9. Conserving approximations: self-energy; 10. MBPT for the Green's function; 11. MBPT and variational principles for the grand potential; 12. MBPT for the two-particle Green's function; 13. Applications of MBPT to equilibrium problems; 14. Linear response theory: preliminaries; 15. Linear response theory: many-body formulation; 16. Applications of MBPT to nonequilibrium problems; Appendices; Index.
