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The book is devoted to the fundamental aspects of the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of many-particle systems. The concept of Zubarev’s approach, which generalizes the notion of Gibbs’ ensembles, and introduces a nonequilibrium statistical operator, providing an adequate basis for dealing with strongly correlated systems that are governed by nonperturbative phenomena, such as the formation of bound states, quantum condensates and the instability of the vacuum. Besides a general introduction to the formalism, this book contains contributions devoted to the applications of Zubarev’s method to the solution of modern problems in different fields of physics: transport theory, hydrodynamics, high-energy physics, quark-gluon plasma and hadron production in heavy-ion collisions. The book provides valuable information for researchers and students in these fields, requiring powerful concepts to solve fundamental problems of non-equilibrium phenomena in strongly

relativistic fluid dynamics --- statistical operator --- non-equilibrium states --- transport coefficients --- correlation functions --- open quantum system --- master equation --- non-equilibrium statistical operator --- relevant statistical operator --- quasi-temperature --- dynamic correlations --- QCD matter --- phase transition --- critical point --- nonequilibrium thermo-field dynamics --- kinetics --- hydrodynamics --- kinetic equations --- bound states --- quark-gluon plasma --- out-of-equilibrium quantum field theory --- dimensional renormalization --- finite-time-path formalism --- Boltzmann equation --- gluon saturation --- pion enhancement --- ALICE --- LHC --- thermalization --- hadronization --- Gibbs equilibrium statistical mechanics --- Bogoliubov’s quasi-averages --- pressure fluctuations --- relativistic ideal gas --- kinetic theory --- particle production --- Schwinger effect --- Zitterbewegung --- low density approximation --- quantum statistical mechanics --- relativistic hydrodynamics --- Kubo formulae --- graphene --- dynamic critical phenomena --- high-field and nonlinear effects --- QCD --- gluons --- Bose-Einstein condensate --- Fokker-Planck equation --- relaxation time approximation --- linear response theory --- permittivity, dynamical conductivity, absorption coefficient, dynamical collision frequency --- ordered lattice, disordered lattice --- Umklapp process --- interband transitions --- finite temperature field theory --- path integrals --- quantum fields in curved spacetime --- symmetries --- quantum anomalies --- irreversibility --- entropy --- electrical conductivity --- Zubarev operator --- Unruh effect --- acceleration --- Zubarev formalism --- pion chemical potential