Journal of Mathematical Physics

Time-reversal noninvariance of the quantum-mechanical kinetic equation of Kadanoff and Baym

Zlatiborka A. Nikolić

Published Dec 1, 1978• 0 citations

Abstract

Applying anticausal Green’s function technique, it has been shown that the origin of time-reversal noninvariance of the quantum-mechanical kinetic equation of Kadanoff and Baym lies in the selection of the boundary condition that the system be in thermodynamical equilibrium at time t=−∞.

DOI: 10.1063/1.523648

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