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200 10$aThermal Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Dynamics /$fby Peter Millington
205   $a1st ed. 2014.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014.
215   $a1 online resource (220 p.)
225 1 $aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a3-319-01185-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction -- Equilibrium Mechanics -- Introduction to Part I -- Classical Prerequisites -- Quantum Statistical Mechanics -- Correlation Functions -- Imaginary Time Formalism -- The Scalar Field -- Non-equilibrium Mechanics -- Introduction to Part II -- The CTP Formalism -- Non-Homogeneous Backgrounds -- The Thermodynamic Equilibrium Limit.
330   $aThe author develops a new perturbative formalism of non-equilibrium thermal quantum field theory for non-homogeneous backgrounds. As a result of this formulation, the author is able to show how so-called pinch singularities can be removed, without resorting to ad hoc prescriptions, or effective resummations of absorptive effects. Thus, the author arrives at a diagrammatic approach to non-equilibrium field theory, built from modified Feynman rules that are manifestly time-dependent from tree level. This new formulation provides an alternative framework in which to derive master time evolution equations for physically meaningful particle number densities, which are valid to all orders in perturbation theory and to all orders in gradient expansion. Once truncated in a loop-wise sense, these evolution equations capture non-equilibrium dynamics on all time-scales, systematically describing energy-violating processes and the non-Markovian evolution of memory effects.
410  0$aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053
606   $aQuantum field theory
606   $aString theory
606   $aThermodynamics
606   $aStatistical physics
606   $aDynamical systems
606   $aMathematical physics
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615  0$aQuantum field theory.
615  0$aString theory.
615  0$aThermodynamics.
615  0$aStatistical physics.
615  0$aDynamical systems.
615  0$aMathematical physics.
615 14$aQuantum Field Theories, String Theory.
615 24$aThermodynamics.
615 24$aComplex Systems.
615 24$aMathematical Physics.
615 24$aStatistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.
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