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"This comprehensively updated second edition introduces graduate students and researchers to nonequilibrium many-body quantum systems, time-resolved techniques, and ultrafast phenomena in modern science. Covering a rapidly evolving field, the book includes original material and rigorous derivations, insightful discussions and illustrative examples"--
List of contents
Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Fundamental constants and basic relations; 1. Second quantization; 2. Getting familiar with second quantization: model Hamiltonians; 3. Time-dependent problems and equations of motion; 4. The contour idea; 5. Nonequilibrium Green's functions; 6. One-particle Green's function: exact results; 7. One-particle Green's function: diagrammatic expansion; 8. Hartree-Frock approximation; 9. Kadanoff-Baym equations; 10. Self-energy and screened interaction: exact results; 11. Grand potential: diagrammatic expansion and variational forms; 12. Conserving approximations; 13. Linear response theory; 14. Two-particle Green's function: diagrammatic expansion; 15. Electron gas: equilibrium and nonequilibrium correlation effects; 16. Green's functions for nonequilibrium fermion-boson systems; 17. From Green's functions to simplified many-body approaches; Appendices; References; Index.
About the author
Gianluca Stefanucci is Professor of Condensed Matter Theory at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. His current research interests are in nonequilibrium quantum matter, low-dimensional systems, and time-resolved spectroscopy. He is the author of more than hundred research articles in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals.Robert van Leeuwen is Professor of Physics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His primary area of research is quantum many-body theory with a focus on non-equilibrium systems. Within this research field he has published more than hundred articles in distinguished, scientific journals.
