Kinetic theory for scalar fields with nonlocal quantum coherence

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Herranen, Matti ^a,b   Kainulainen, Kimmo ^a,b   Rahkila, Pyry Matti ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Quantum dissipative systems; Statistical methods; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650261389     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/119     Document Type: Article

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