Positive commutators in non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics: Return to equilibrium

DOI10.1007/S002200100545zbMath0987.82009arXivmath-ph/0410014OpenAlexW29615916MaRDI QIDQ5953703

Marco Merkli

Publication date: 27 January 2002

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0410014

zbMATH Keywords

Fermi golden rulespectral analysisopen quantum systemsGNS constructionLiouville operatorvirial theoremMourre estimateKMS state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

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