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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankNONEQUILIBRIUMQUANTUMFIELDTHEORYResearchintothenonequilibriumprocessesofquantummanybodysystems,andthestatisticalmechanicalpropertiesofinteractingquantumfields,constitutesafastdevelopingandwidelyapplicableareaoftheoreticalphysics.Bringingtogetherthekeyideasfromnonequili
2、briumstatisticalmechanicsandpowerfulmethodologyfromquantumfieldtheory,thisbookcapturestheessenceofnonequilibriumquantumfieldtheory.Beginningwiththefoundationalaspectsofthetheory,thebookpresentsimportantconceptsandusefultechniques,discussesissuesofbasicinterestsuchasdecoherenceandentropygeneration,an
3、dshowshowthermalfield,linearresponse,kinetictheoriesandhydrodynamicsemerge.Italsoillustrateshowtheseconceptsandmethodologyareappliedtocurrentresearchtopicssuchasnonequi-libriumphasetransitions,thermalizationinrelativisticheavyioncollisions,thenonequilibriumdynamicsofBose-Einsteincondensation,andthe
4、generationofstructuresfromquantumfluctuationsintheearlyUniverse.Thebookisdividedintofiveparts,witheachpartaddressingaparticularstageintheconceptualandtechnicaldevelopmentofthesubject.Fullderivationsordetailedplausibilityargumentsarepresentedthroughout.Thisself-containedbookisavaluablereferenceforgra
5、duatestudentsandresearchersinparticlephysics,gravitation,cosmology,atomic-opticalandcondensedmatterphysics.EstebanA.CalzettaisaProfessorintheDepartamentodeF´ısicaattheUniversidaddeBuenosAiresandResearcheratCONICET,Argentina.Bei-LokB.HuisaProfessorintheDepartmentofPhysicsandaFellowoftheJointQuantum
6、InstituteattheUniversityofMaryland,CollegePark.CAMBRIDGEMONOGRAPHSONMATHEMATICALPHYSICSGeneraleditors:P.V.Landshoff,D.R.Nelson,S.WeinbergS.J.AarsethGravitationalN-BodySimulationsJ.Ambjørn,B.DurhuusandT.JonssonQuantumGeometry:AStatisticalFieldTheoryApproachA.M.AnileRelativisticFluidsandMagneto-Fluid
7、s:WithApplicationsinAstrophysicsandPlasmaPhysicsJ.A.deAzc´arrageandJ.M.IzquierdoLieGroups,LieAlgebras,CohomologyandSome†ApplicationsinPhysics†O.Babelon,D.BernardandM.TalonIntroductiontoClassicalIntegrableSystemsF