Introduction to many body physics

Coleman, Piers.

Introduction to many body physics Piers Coleman, Rutgers University, New Jersey. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. - xv, 796p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scales and complexity -- Quantum fields -- Conserved particles -- Simple examples of second-quantization -- Green's functions -- Landau Fermi liquid theory -- Zero temperature Feynman diagrams -- Finite temperature many-body physics -- Fluctuation dissipation and linear response theory -- Electron transport theory -- Phase transitions and broken symmetry -- Path integrals -- Path integrals and itinerant magnetism -- Superconductivity and BCS theory -- Retardation and anisotrophic pairing -- Local moments and the Kondo effect -- Heavy electrons -- Mixed valence, fluctuations and topology.

9780521864886 (hbk) = EECS-reference book collection

2015001415


Many-body problem.
Condensed matter.

QC174.17.P7 / C64 2015

530.41 C677I



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