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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254572103321

Autore

De Nittis Giuseppe

Titolo

Linear response theory : an analytic-algebraic approach / / by Giuseppe De Nittis, Max Lein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-56732-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 138 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics, , 2197-1757 ; ; 21

Disciplina

512.5

Soggetti

Physics

Mathematical physics

Condensed matter

Functional analysis

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Mathematical Physics

Condensed Matter Physics

Functional Analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Setting, Hypotheses and Main Results -- Mathematical Framework -- A Unified Framework for Common Physical Systems -- Studying the Dynamics -- The Kubo Formula and its Adiabatic Limit -- Applications.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a modern and systematic approach to Linear Response Theory (LRT) by combining analytic and algebraic ideas. LRT is a tool to study systems that are driven out of equilibrium by external perturbations. In particular the reader is provided with a new and robust tool to implement LRT for a wide array of systems. The proposed formalism in fact applies to periodic and random systems in the discrete and the continuum. After a short introduction describing the structure of the book, its aim and motivation, the basic elements of the theory are presented in chapter 2. The mathematical framework of the theory is outlined in chapters 3–5: the relevant von Neumann algebras, noncommutative $L^p$- and Sobolev spaces are introduced;



their construction is then made explicit for common physical systems; the notion of isopectral perturbations and the associated dynamics are studied. Chapter 6 is dedicated to the main results, proofs of the Kubo and Kubo-Streda formulas. The book closes with a chapter about possible future developments and applications of the theory to periodic light conductors. The book addresses a wide audience of mathematical physicists, focusing on the conceptual aspects rather than technical details and making algebraic methods accessible to analysts.