• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Linear Response Theory: An Analytic-Algebraic Approach

Linear Response Theory: An Analytic-Algebraic Approach

Paperback

Series: Springerbriefs in Mathematical Physics, Book 21

General MathematicsPhysics

ISBN10: 3319567314
ISBN13: 9783319567310
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 27 2017
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book presents a modern and systematic approach to Linear Response Theory (LRT) by combining analytic and algebraic ideas. LRT is a tool to study systems that are driven out of equilibrium by external perturbations. In particular the reader is provided with a new and robust tool to implement LRT for a wide array of systems. The proposed formalism in fact applies to periodic and random systems in the discrete and the continuum. After a short introduction describing the structure of the book, its aim and motivation, the basic elements of the theory are presented in chapter 2. The mathematical framework of the theory is outlined in chapters 3-5: the relevant von Neumann algebras, noncommutative $L p$- and Sobolev spaces are introduced; their construction is then made explicit for common physical systems; the notion of isopectral perturbations and the associated dynamics are studied. Chapter 6 is dedicated to the main results, proofs of the Kubo and Kubo-Streda formulas. Thebook closes with a chapter about possible future developments and applications of the theory to periodic light conductors.

Also in

Physics