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We present the so-called Liouville-Neumann (LN) approach to nonequilibrium quantum fields. The LN approach unifies the functional Schr\"{o}dinger equation and the LN equation for time-independent or time-dependent quantum systems and for…
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The non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is still a challenging task, particularly in the non-perturbative regime at low temperatures. While the Stochastic Liouville-von Neumann equation (SLN) provides a formally exact tool to…
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We present a nonperturbative field theoretic method based on the Liouville-Neumann (LN) equation. The LN approach provides a unified formulation of nonperturbative quantum fields and also nonequilibrium quantum fields, which makes use of…
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