Quantum Theory and Its Stochastic Limit

Luigi Accardi, Yun Gang Lu, Igor Volovich (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XX, 474 Seiten

2002 | 2002
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-41928-0 (ISBN)

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Nowadays it is becoming clearer and clearer that, in the description of natural phenomena, the triadic scheme - microseopie, mesoscopic, macroscopic - is only a rough approximation and that there are many levels of description, probably an infinite hierarchy, in which the specific properties of a given level express some kind of cumulative or collective behaviour of properties or sys tems corresponding to the lower levels. One of the most interesting challenges for contemporary natural sciences is the comprehension of the connections among these different levels of description of reality and the deduction of the laws of higher levels in this hierarchy from basic laws corresponding to lower levels. Since these cumulative or collective phenomena are, typically, nonlin ear effects, the transition from this general program to concrete scientific achievements requires the developement of techniques which allow physical information to be extracted from nonlinear quantum systems. Explicitly in tegrable examples of such systems are rare, and the most interesting physical phenomena are not captured by them. Even in the case of linear systems the fact that an explicit solution is formally available is often useless, since it is impossible to interpret interesting physical phenomena from it.

1. Notations and Statement of the Problem.- 2. Quantum Fields.- 3. Those Kinds of Fields We Call Noises.- 4. Open Systems.- 5. Spin-Boson Systems.- 6. Measurements and Filtering Theory.- 7. Idea of the Proof and Causal Normal Order.- 8. Chronological Product Approach to the Stochastic Limit.- 9. Functional Integral Approach to the Stochastic Limit.- 10. Low-Density Limit: The Basic Idea.- 11. Six Basic Principles of the Stochastic Limit.- 12. Particles Interacting with a Boson Field.- 13. The Anderson Model.- 14. Field-Field Interactions.- 15. Analytical Theory of Feynman Diagrams.- 16. Term-by-Term Convergence.- References.

"The authors have produced a very important and detailed book on the subject of the stochastic limit of quantum field theory. In particular, they formulate the stochastic limit in the framework of an algebraic central limit theory using the sort of scaling limits encountered in quantum transport phenomena. [...] The book is well written and covers many related problems [...] The audience will be mathematical and theoretical physicists. The authors are to be congratulated for showing the power and range of application of quantum probability to quantum physics." (Mathematical Reviews 2003h)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.8.2002
Zusatzinfo	XX, 474 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	854 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte	Collection Phenomena • Correlation • Interacting Fock Space • QED • Quantentheorie • Quantum noise • Quantum probability • Statistics • Stochastic Golden Rule • Stochastic Limit • Stochastik
ISBN-10	3-540-41928-4 / 3540419284
ISBN-13	978-3-540-41928-0 / 9783540419280
Zustand	Neuware