Quantum Transport Theory.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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0813342848

Quantum transport theory.

Rammer, Jorgen.

Westview Press

2004

521 pages

$45.00

Paperback

Frontiers in physics; 99

QC174

Rammer (physics, Umea University, Sweden) offers an account of recent achievements in the understanding of disordered conductors. Chapters cover the density matrix description of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and new topics in the ...

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