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Positive Commutators in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Marco Merkli
The method of positive commutators, developed for zero temperature problems over the last twenty years, has been an essential tool in the spectral analysis of Hamiltonians in quant…
Statistical Mechanics of Thermodynamic Processes
Jürg Fröhlich, Marco Merkli, Simon Schwarz +1
In this note we describe some results concerning non-relativistic quantum systems at positive temperature and density confined to macroscopically large regions of physical space wh…
Ionization of Atoms in a Thermal Field
Jürg Fröhlich, Marco Merkli, Israel Michael Sigal
We study the stationary states of a quantum mechanical system describing an atom coupled to black-body radiation at positive temperature. The stationary states of the non-interacti…
Another Return of 'Return to Equilibrium'
Jürg Fröhlich, Marco Merkli
The property of ``{\it return to equilibrium}'' is established for a class of quantum-mechanical models describing interactions of a (toy) atom with black-body radiation, or of a s…
Stability of Equilibria with a Condensate
Marco Merkli
We consider a quantum system composed of a spatially infinitely extended free Bose gas with a condensate, interacting with a small system (quantum dot) which can trap finitely many…