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Nuclear Physics B

Functional methods in thermofield dynamics: A real-time perturbation theory for quantum statistical mechanics

Gordon Walter Semenoff, Hiroomi Umezawa

Published Jun 1, 1983• 104 citations
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10.1016/0550-3213(83)90223-7

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