Quantum Dissipative Systems

Summary: Recent advances in the quantum theory of macroscopic systems have brightened up the field and brought it into the focus of a general community in natural sciences. The fundamental concepts, methods and applications including the most recent developments, previously covered for the most part only in the original literature, are presented here in a comprehensive treatment to an audience who is reasonably familiar with ...quantum-statistical mechanics and has had rudimentary contacts with the path integral formulation. [read more]