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View SchemaResonance Transport and Kinetic Entropy
| Authors | Yu. B. Ivanov, J. Knoll, D. N. Voskresensky |
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| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/9905028 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9905028 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0375-9474(99)00559-X |
| Journal | Nucl.Phys.A672:313-356,2000 |
Abstract
Within the real-time formulation of nonequilibrium field theory, generalized transport equations are derived avoiding the standard quasiparticle approximation. They permit to include unstable particles into the transport scheme. In order to achieve a self-consistent, conserving and thermodynamically consistent description, we generalize the Baym's $\Phi$-functional method to genuine nonequilibrium processes. The developed transport description naturally includes all those quantum features already inherent in the corresponding equilibrium limit. Memory effects appearing in collision term diagrams of higher order are discussed. The variational properties of $\Phi$-functional permit to derive a generalized expression for the non-equilibrium kinetic entropy flow, which includes fluctuations and mass width effects. In special cases an $H$-theorem is demonstrated implying that the entropy can only increase with time. Memory effects in the kinetic terms provide corrections to the kinetic entropy flow that in equilibrium limit recover the famous bosonic type $T^3 \ln T$ correction to the specific heat of Fermi liquids like Helium-3.
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