Stochastic processes in physics and chemistry
The third edition of Van Kampen's standard work has been revised and updated. The main difference with the second edition is that the contrived application of the quantum master equation in section 6 of chapter XVII has been replaced with a satisfactory treatment of quantum fluctuations. Apart...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Elsevier
2007, 2007
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| Edition: | 3rd ed |
| Series: | North-Holland personal library
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Abbreviated references
- I. Stochastic variables
- II. Random events
- III. Stochastic processes
- IV. Markov processes
- V. The master equation
- VI. One-step processes
- VII. Chemical reactions
- VIII. The Fokker-Planck equation
- IX. The Langevin approach
- X. The expansion of the master equation
- XI. The diffusion type
- XII. First-passage problems
- XIII. Unstable systems
- XIV. Fluctuations in continuous systems
- XV. The statistics of jump events
- XVI. Stochastic differential equations
- XVII. Stochastic behavior of quantum systems
- Subject Index
- Includes bibliographical references and index