03075nam 22006135 450 991025738900332120200706133801.03-540-44513-710.1007/b98082(CKB)1000000000231517(SSID)ssj0000326058(PQKBManifestationID)11255373(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000326058(PQKBWorkID)10264870(PQKB)11125845(DE-He213)978-3-540-44513-5(PPN)155210750(EXLCZ)99100000000023151720121227d2004 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrQuantum Thermodynamics[electronic resource] Emergence of Thermodynamic Behavior Within Composite Quantum Systems /by Jochen Gemmer, Mathias Michel, Günter Mahler1st ed. 2004.Berlin, Heidelberg :Springer Berlin Heidelberg :Imprint: Springer,2004.1 online resource (XX, 287 p.) Lecture Notes in Physics,0075-8450 ;657Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph3-540-22911-6 Part I: Background -- Part II: Quantum Approach to Thermodynamics -- Applications and Models.This tutorial essay views thermodynamics as an incomplete description of quantum systems with many degrees of freedom.The main goal is to show that the approach to equilibrium with equilibrium characterized by maximum ignorance about the open system of interest - does neither require that many particles nor is the precise way of partitioning relevant for the solient features of equilibrium and equilibration. Moreover it is indeed quantum effects that are at work in bringing about universal thermodynamic behaviour of modest size open systems. Von Neumann`s concept of entropy thus appears as much more widely useful than sometimes feared, way beyond truely macrosopic systems in equilibrium.Lecture Notes in Physics,0075-8450 ;657Quantum physicsPhysicsThermodynamicsQuantum Physicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19080Mathematical Methods in Physicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19013Thermodynamicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P21050Quantum physics.Physics.Thermodynamics.Quantum Physics.Mathematical Methods in Physics.Thermodynamics.530.12Gemmer Jochenauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut497283Michel Mathiasauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autMahler Günterauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910257389003321Quantum Thermodynamics2526079UNINA