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100	1		_aMillington, Peter. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aThermal Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Dynamics _h[electronic resource] / _cby Peter Millington.
264		1	_aCham : _bSpringer International Publishing : _bImprint: Springer, _c2014.
300			_aXXV, 215 p. 28 illus., 10 illus. in color. _bonline resource.
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490	1		_aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, _x2190-5053
505	0		_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.
520			_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
650		0	_aPhysics.
650		0	_aThermodynamics.
650	1	4	_aPhysics.
650	2	4	_aQuantum Field Theories, String Theory.
650	2	4	_aThermodynamics.
650	2	4	_aStatistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.
650	2	4	_aMathematical Physics.
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776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783319011851
830		0	_aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, _x2190-5053
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01186-8
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