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In this chapter we will rather briefly mention well-established approaches to relaxation and transport behavior in quantum systems. This is not meant to be a comprehensive review of all approaches concerning those complex fields of theoretical physics, but an overview of concepts and central ideas. To learn more about the discussed topics, the interested reader is referred to the substantial secondary literature which is cited in this chapter.
Professor Prigogine’s search for “irreversibility at the microscopic level” can be seen as an attempt to extend thermodynamics all the way down to the level of quantum mechanics … He was hoping for a fundamental, almost deterministic partial differential equation which could describe thermodynamics at the quantum level.
— K. Gustafson [1]
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Gemmer, J., Michel, M., Mahler, G. (2009). Brief Review of Relaxation and Transport Theories. In: Quantum Thermodynamics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 784. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70510-9_17
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