Lecture Note

QUANTUM KINETIC THEORY

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Distribution function
3. Conservation laws
4. Kinetic equation
5. Collision integral
6. Linearised collision operator
7. Local equilibrium
8. Entropy production
9. Irreversible flows
10. Transport coefficients
11. Variational principle
12. Bibliography

Ch.G. van Weert
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Universiteit van Amsterdam
the Netherlands
1985