Nonequilibrium Green's Functions Approach to Inhomogeneous Systems

by Karsten Balzer and Michael Bonitz

This research monograph provides a pedagogical and self-contained introduction to non-equilibrium quantum particle dynamics for inhomogeneous systems, up to and including a survey of recent breakthroughs pioneered by the authors and other groups.
The theoretical approach is based on real-time Green's functions (Keldysh Green's functions), directly solving the two-time Kadanoff-Baym equations (KBE).
This field has seen a rapid development over the last decade, with new applications emerging in plasma physics, semiconductor optics and transport, nuclear matter and high-energy physics.
This text will be a valuable starting point and reference work for graduate students and researchers interested in the quantum dynamics of inhomogeneous systems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 364235081X
• ISBN13: 9783642350818
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"