%0 eBook %M Solr-EB000390796 %A Balzer, Karsten %I Springer Berlin Heidelberg %D 2013 %C Berlin, Heidelberg %G English %B Lecture Notes in Physics %@ 9783642350825 %T Nonequilibrium Green's Functions Approach to Inhomogeneous Systems %U https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35082-5?nosfx=y %7 1st ed. 2013 %X This research monograph provides a pedagogical and self-contained introduction to non-equilibrium quantum particle dynamics for inhomogeneous systems, including a survey of recent breakthroughs pioneered by the authors and other groups. The theoretical approach is based on real-time Green’s functions (Keldysh Green’s functions), directly solving the two-time Kadanoff-Baym equations (KBE). This field has seen a rapid development over the last decade, with new applications emerging in plasma physics, semiconductor optics and transport, nuclear matter and high-energy physics.   This text will be a valuable starting point and reference work for graduate students and researchers interested in the quantum dynamics of inhomogeneous systems