Nonequilibrium Physics at Short Time Scales

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Quantum Statistical Approaches to Correlations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Quantum Many-Body Theory and Coherent Potential Approximation

      • Yoshiro Kakehashi

      Pages 3-21

   3. Cluster Transfer Matrix Method: A Novel Many-Body Technique in Nanoelectronics

      • Sung Chung

      Pages 23-37

   4. Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems

      • Jacek Okołowicz, Marek Płoszajczak, Ingrid Rotter

      Pages 39-58

   5. Variational Approaches to the Dynamics of Mixed Quantum States

      • Remus-Amilcar Ionescu

      Pages 59-71

   6. Thermal Non-analyticity in the Damping Rate of a Massive Fermion

      • Peter A. Henning

      Pages 73-93

   7. Second Law of Thermodynamics, but Without a Thermodynamic Limit

      • Dieter Gross

      Pages 95-107

3. Description of Nonequilibrium Correlations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Isothermal Molecular Dynamics in Classical and Quantum Mechanics

      • Detlef Mentrup, Jürgen Schnack

      Pages 111-124

   3. Non-local Kinetic Theory

      • Klaus Morawetz, Pavel Lipayský

      Pages 125-151

   4. Collisional Absorption of Laser Radiation in a Strongly Correlated Plasma

      • Thomas Bornath, Manfred Schlanges, Paul Hilse, Dietrich Kremp

      Pages 153-171

   5. Correlations and Equilibration in Relativistic Quantum Systems

      • Wolfgang Cassing, Sascha Juchem

      Pages 173-193

   6. Consequences of Kinetic Nonequilibrium for the Nuclear Equation-of-state in Heavy Ion Collisions

      • Christian Fuchs

      Pages 195-205

4. Response to Short Laser Pulses in Semiconductors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Ultrafast Spectroscopy in the Quantum Hall Regime

      • Christian Schüller, Neil A. Fromer, Ilias E. Perakis, Daniel S. Chemla

      Pages 209-230

   3. Ultrafast Formation of Quasiparticles in Semiconductors: How Bare Charges Get Dressed

      • Markus Betz, Rupert Huber, Florian Tauser, Andreas Brodschelm, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Paul Gartner et al.

      Pages 231-249

   4. Self-consistent Projection Operator Theory of Intersubband Absorbance in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

      • Inès Waldmüller, Jens Förstner, Andreas Knorr

      Pages 251-271

   5. Disorder Induced e-h Correlation in Photoexcited Transients in Semiconductors

      • Andéla Kalvová, Bedřich Velický

      Pages 273-293

   6. Excitonic Correlations in the Nonlinear Optical Response of Two-dimensional Semiconductor Microstructures: A Nonequilibrium Green’s Function Approach

      • Nai-Hang Kwong, Ryu Takayama, Ilia Rumyantsev, Zhen-Shan Yang, Rolf Binder

      Pages 295-308

This book is the result of the many discussions and collaborations that de­ veloped from the seven previous workshops held on this topic. This ongoing series of interdisciplinary workshops provided an opportunity for the presen­ tation and exchange of results describing nonequilibrium phenomena at short time scales. The important questions concern the correlation and memory ef­ fects in dense interacting systems currently under study in various areas of physics. Experiments on very short time scales are especially characterized by the strong correlations in systems far from equilibrium and by their non­ linear dynamics. In this regard, conventionally applied theoretical techniques are critically reviewed, and new theoretical concepts are discussed. Possible signals of nonequilibrium effects are extracted from experiments using power­ ful techniques and skills. The exchange of views and techniques from different areas of physics helped to stimulate such developments. The impressive success of experiments using short laser pulses to probe the properties of matter, as well as of the new methods of analysis of the early phases of heavy ion reactions, initiated a review of the available many body theoretical methods. These statistical methods describing strong nonequilib­ rium situations were known, at least partially, for a long time. However, recent developments in computing power have provided the possibility of accurately comparing ab initio and approximate methods.

• Absorption
• Heavy-ion reactions
• Helium-Atom-Streuung
• Neutron
• Nonequilibrium physics
• Potential
• cluster
• collision
• laser
• many-body theory
• nonlinear dynamics
• optics
• particles
• quantum mechanics
• quantum system

• Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

  Klaus Morawetz

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