Quantum Dissipative Systems

Abstract

Fundamentals Survey of the Various Approaches Path Integral Description of Open Quantum Systems Imaginary-Time and Real-Time Approaches Influence Functional Method Phenomenological and Microscopic System-Plus-Reservoir Models Linear and Nonlinear Quantum Environments Ohmic, Super-Ohmic, and Sub-Ohmic Dissipation Quantum Decoherence and Relaxation Correlation Functions, Response Functions, and Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem Damped Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator Quantum Brownian Motion Thermodynamic Variational Approach and Effective Potential Method Unified Approach to Quantum-Statistical Metastability: From Thermal Activation to Quantum Tunneling Electron Transfer and Incoherent Tunneling Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Josephson Systems Spin-Boson Model and Qubit Dissipative Two-State System: Thermodynamics and Dynamics Single-Charge and Cooper-Pair Tunneling Magnetic and Spin Tunneling Driven Quantum Tunneling Nonequilibrium Quantum Transport Full Counting Statistics Charge Transport in Quantum Impurity Systems Duality and Self-Duality.