TY - BOOK ID - 293565 TI - Quantum statistical mechanics AU - Schieve, W. C AU - Horwitz, L P PY - 2009 SN - 9780521841467 9780511626555 9781139129152 1139129155 051162655X 0521841461 1283329670 9781283329675 9786613329677 6613329673 1139134183 9781139134187 1139130889 9781139130882 0511504845 9780511504846 0511506988 9780511506987 110719556X PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Statistical physics KW - Quantum statistics. KW - Statistique quantique KW - Statistical mechanics. KW - Mechanics KW - Mechanics, Analytic KW - Quantum statistics KW - Thermodynamics KW - Quantum statistical mechanics KW - Matrix mechanics KW - Statistical mechanics KW - Wave mechanics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:293565 AB - Many-body theory stands at the foundation of modern quantum statistical mechanics. It is introduced here to graduate students in physics, chemistry, engineering and biology. 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. ER -