Quantum Statistical Mechanics

Author:   Leo P. Kadanoff ,  Gordon Baym ,  David Pines
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367320102


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   07 May 2019
Format:   Hardback
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This book is a very early systematic treatment of the application of the field-theoretical methods developed after the Second World War to the quantum mechanical many-body problem at finite temperature. It describes various techniques that remain basic tools of modern condensed matter physicists.

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Author:   Leo P. Kadanoff ,  Gordon Baym ,  David Pines
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Weight:   0.571kg
ISBN:  

9780367320102


ISBN 10:   036732010
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   07 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Publisher’s Foreword -- Advanced Book Classics -- Vita -- Special Preface -- Editor’s Foreword -- Preface -- Mathematical Introduction -- Information Contained in G>and G< -- The Hartree and Hartree-Fock Approximations -- Effect of Collisions on G -- A Technique for Deriving Green’s Function Approximations -- Transport Phenomena -- The Hartree Approximation, the Collisionless Boltzmann Equation, and the Random Phase Approximation -- Relation between Real and Imaginary Time Response Functions -- Slowly Varying Disturbances and the Boltzmann Equation -- Quasi-Equilibrium Behavior: Sound Propagation -- The Landau Theory of the Normal Fermi Liquid -- The Shielded Potential -- The T Approximation -- Appendix: Finite-Temperature Perturbation Theory

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