Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Strongly Correlated Systems

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: absorption coefficient; acceleration; ALICE; Bogoliubov’s quasi-averages; Boltzmann equation; Bose-Einstein condensate; bound states; correlation functions; critical point; dimensional renormalization; disordered lattice; dynamic correlations; dynamic critical phenomena; dynamical collision frequency; dynamical conductivity; electrical conductivity; entropy; finite temperature field theory; finite-time-path formalism; Fokker-Planck equation; Gibbs equilibrium statistical mechanics; gluon saturation; gluons; graphene; hadronization; high-field and nonlinear effects; hydrodynamics; interband transitions; irreversibility; kinetic equations; kinetic theory; kinetics; Kubo formulae; LHC; linear response theory; low density approximation; master equation; non-equilibrium states; non-equilibrium statistical operator; nonequilibrium thermo-field dynamics; open quantum system; ordered lattice; out-of-equilibrium quantum field theory; particle production; path integrals; permittivity; phase transition; pion chemical potential; pion enhancement; pressure fluctuations; QCD; QCD matter; quantum anomalies; quantum fields in curved spacetime; quantum statistical mechanics; quark-gluon plasma; quasi-temperature; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; relativistic fluid dynamics; relativistic hydrodynamics; relativistic ideal gas; relaxation time approximation; relevant statistical operator; Research and information: general; Schwinger effect; statistical operator; symmetries; thermalization; transport coefficients; Umklapp process; Unruh effect; Zitterbewegung; Zubarev formalism; Zubarev operator
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03936-815-0
• ISBN: 9783039368150; 3039368141; 9783039368143; 303936815X

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