Many-Body Problems and Quantum Field Theory

"Many-Body Problems and Quantum Field Theory" introduces the concepts and methods of the topics on a level suitable for graduate students and researchers. The formalism is developed in close conjunction with the description of a number of physical systems: cohesion and dielectric properties of the electron gas, superconductivity, superfluidity, nuclear matter and nucleon pairing, matter and radiation, interaction of fields by particle exchange and mass generation. Emphasis is placed on analogies between the various systems rather than on advanced or specialized aspects, with the purpose of illustrating common ideas within different domains of physics. Starting from a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and classical electromagnetism, the exposition is self-contained and explicitly details all steps of the derivations. The nbew ediiton features a subtantially new treatment of nucleon pairing.

Carefully select the really important applications of quantum physics to the physics of matter and develop the theory just to the extent it is actually needed Pedagocically written and altogether quite different from most books on quantum physics

Contenu

1. Classical Fields and Their Associated Particles.- 2. Fermions and Bosons.- 3. Systems with Variable Particle Number.- 4. Electron Gas.- 5. Fermion Pairing and Superconductivity.- 6. Nucleon Pairing and the Structure of the Nucleus.- 7. The Superfluidity of Liquid Helium.- 8. Quantum Fields.- 9. Perturbative Methods in Field Theory.- 10. Perturbative Methods in Many-Body Problems.