Recent advances in the quantum theory of macroscopic systems have brightened up the field and brought it into the focus of a general community in natural scienc

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of dissipative quantum mechanics and explores related phenomena in con

Dissipative forces play an important role in problems of classical as well as quantum mechanics. Since these forces are not among the basic forces of nature, it

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of dissipative quantum mechanics and explores related phenomena in con

This work is self-contained and can be used by students without a previous course in modern mathematics and physics. It describes the modern structure of the th