Stochastic Processes in Physics and Chemistry |
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| Author:
| Van Kampen, N. G. |
| Series title: | North-Holland Personal Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-444-52965-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2007 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science & Technology
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| Imprint: | North Holland |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $121.00 |
Book Description:
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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 from that throughout the text corrections have been made and a number of references to later developments have been included. From the recent textbooks the following are the most...
More DescriptionThe 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 from that throughout the text corrections have been made and a number of references to later developments have been included. From the recent textbooks the following are the most relevant.C.W.Gardiner, Quantum Optics (Springer, Berlin 1991)D.T. Gillespie, Markov Processes (Academic Press, San Diego 1992)W.T. Coffey, Yu.P.Kalmykov, and J.T.Waldron, The Langevin Equation (2nd edition, World Scientific, 2004)