Nonequilibrium dynamical meanfield theory and its applications hideo aoki and naoto tsuji department of physics, university of tokyo, hongo, tokyo 1033, japan martin eckstein max planck research department for structural dynamics, university. From the origin of sound to an origin of light and electrons oxford graduate texts xiaogang wen 3. Dmft can also be applied to nonequilibrium problems, i. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics is a branch of thermodynamics that deals with physical systems that are not in thermodynamic equilibrium but can be described in terms of variables nonequilibrium state variables that represent an extrapolation of the variables used to specify the system in thermodynamic equilibrium. Introduction to nonequilibrium quantum field theory core.
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