Overview
- Presents details to enable the student to follow current research literature and apply techniques to new problems
- Revises and expands material from the previous edition where significant progress has been made
- Covers additional material to highlight methods of quantum many-body theory for low-dimensional systems as well as noise and fluctuations in quantum coherent systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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About this book
This text presents a self-contained treatment of the physics of many-body systems from the point of view of condensed matter. The approach, quite traditionally, uses the mathematical formalism of quasiparticles and Green’s functions. In particular, it covers all the important diagram techniques for normal and superconducting systems, including the zero-temperature perturbation theory and the Matsubara, Keldysh and Nambu-Gor'kov formalism, as well as an introduction to Feynman path integrals.
This new edition contains an introduction to the methods of theory of one-dimensional systems (bosonization and conformal field theory) and their applications to many-body problems.
Intended for graduate students in physics and related fields, the aim is not to be exhaustive, but to present enough detail to enable the student to follow the current research literature, or to apply the techniques to new problems. Many of the examples are drawn from mesoscopic physics, which deals with systems small enough that quantum coherence is maintained throughout their volume and which therefore provides an ideal testing ground for many-body theories.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alexandre Zagoskin is Reader in Quantum Physics in the Department of Physics at Loughborough University. In his career, he has published over 90 articles in refereed journals, 2 books (including the first edition of Quantum Theory of Many-Body Systems [Springer, 978-0-387-98384-4, 1998]), and 23 patents. He is Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Theory of Many-Body Systems
Book Subtitle: Techniques and Applications
Authors: Alexandre Zagoskin
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07049-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07048-3Published: 11 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37429-1Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07049-0Published: 26 June 2014
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 280
Number of Illustrations: 154 b/w illustrations
Topics: Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences, Quantum Physics, Complex Systems, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics