Quantum Statistical Mechanics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521841467)

The book provides a contemporary understanding of irreversibility, particularly in quantum systems. It explains entropy production in quantum kinetic theory and in the master equation formulation of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. The first half of the book focuses on the foundations of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with emphasis on quantum mechanics. The second half of the book contains alternative views of quantum statistical mechanics, and topics of current interest for advanced graduate level study and research. Unique to textbooks on this subject, this book contains a discussion of the fundamental Gleason theorem. Quantum entanglements are treated in application to quantum computation and the difficulties arising from decoherence. The relativistic generalization of the Boltzmann equation is derived, and modern transport applications to reservoir ballistic transport are developed.

Author: William C. Schieve, Lawrence P. Horwitz
ISBN-10: 0521841461
ISBN-13: 9780521841467
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2009
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 0.90d