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Textbooks

• Quantum Theory: An Information Processing Approach, Oxford University Press, 2021
• Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics: An Introduction to Key Concepts, Oxford University Press, 2017

Research Papers (by topic)

Statistical reconstruction of quantum states

• J. Rau, Appearance of Gibbs states in quantum-state tomography, Physical Review A 90, 062114 (2014)
• J. Rau, Assessing thermalization and estimating the Hamiltonian with output data only, Physical Review A 84, 052101 (2011)
• J. Rau, Inferring the Gibbs state of a small quantum system, Physical Review A 84, 012101 (2011)
• J. Rau, Evidence procedure for efficient quantum-state tomography, Physical Review A 82, 012104 (2010)

Inferring macroscopic dynamics from experimental data

• J. Rau, Reconstructing the relaxation dynamics induced by an unknown heat bath, Physics Letters A 376, 370 (2012)
• V. Bužek, P. Rapcan, J. Rau, M. Ziman, Direct estimation of decoherence rates, Physical Review A 86, 052109 (2012)

Quantum foundations

• J. Rau, Measurement-based quantum foundations, Foundations of Physics 41, 380 (2011)
• J. Rau, On quantum vs. classical probability, Annals of Physics 324, 2622 (2009) 

From microscopic to macroscopic dynamics

• J. Rau, Geometric magnetism in classical transport theory, Physical Review E 56, 1295 (1997)
• P. Neu and J. Rau, Generalized Bloch equations for a strongly driven tunneling system, Physical Review E 55, 2195 (1997)
• J. Rau and B. Müller, From Reversible Quantum Microdynamics to Irreversible Quantum Transport, Physics Reports 272, 1 (1996)
• J. Rau, Pair production in the quantum Boltzmann equation, Physical Review D 50, 6911 (1994)

Renormalization group

• J. Rau, Transport theory yields renormalization group equations, Physical Review E 55, 5147 (1997)
• J. Müller and J. Rau, Renormalization by Projection: On the Equivalence of the Bloch-Feshbach Formalism and Wilson's Renormalization, Physics Letters B 386, 274 (1996)

Mesoscopic systems

• J. Rau, Ballistic transport through chaotic cavities: Parametric correlations and the weak localization peak in a Brownian-motion model, Physical Review B 51, 7734 (1995)

Particle production in heavy-ion collisions

• M. Greiner, M. Vidovic, J. Rau, and G. Soff, Impact parameter dependence of the Higgs boson production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, Journal of Physics G 17, L45 (1991)
• J. Rau, B. Müller, W. Greiner, and G. Soff, Production of supersymmetric particles in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, Journal of Physics G 16, 211 (1990)

Spacetime geometry

• J. Rau, On the Metric Structure of Space-Time, in: M. A. del Olmo, M. Santander, and J. Mateos Guilarte, eds., Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Vol. II, Proceedings of the XIX Int. Colloquium, Salamanca, Spain, June 29 - July 4, 1992 (Anales de Fisica, Monografias 1, CIEMAT, Madrid, 1993, ISBN 84-7834-160-9), pp. 483-486