IWNET12
IWNET12
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics for dissipative quantum systems
Hans Christian Öttinger1
1 ETH Zürich, Department of Materials, Institute of Polymers, HCI H 543, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Abstract
The one and only point of this presentation is to convince the audience that, in the course of this series of
workshops, we have reached an understanding of classical nonequilibrium thermodynamics in terms of geometric
structures that is so deep and so powerful that its generalization to dissipative quantum systems has become
almost straightforward. Some remarkable features or irreversible quantum mechanics are elaborated.
E-mail: hco@mat.ethz.ch

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