The year 1985 represents a special anniversary for people dealing with Ooulomb systems. 200 years ago, in 1785, Oharles Auguste de Ooulomb (1736-1806) found "Ooulomb's law" for the interaction force between charged particles. The authors want to dedicate this book to the honour of the great pioneer of electrophysics. Recent statistical mechanics is mainly restricted to systems of neutral particles. Except for a few monographs and survey articles (see, e. g., IOHIMARU, 1973, 1982; KUDRIN, 1974; KLIMONTOVIOH, 1975; EBELING, KRAEFT and KREMP, 1976, 1979; KALMAN and CARINI, 1978; BAUS and HANSEN, 1980; GILL, 1981, VELO and WIGHT MAN, 1981; MATSUBARA, 1982) the extended material on charged particle systems, which is now available thanks to the efforts of many workers in statistical mechanics, is widely dispersed in many original articles. It is the aim of this monograph to represent at least some part of the known results on charged particle systems from a unified point of view. Here the method of Green's functions turns out to be a powerful method especially to overcome the difficulties connected with the statistical physics of charged particle systems; some of them are . mentioned in the introduction. Here we can point, e.g., to the appearance of bound states in a medium and their role as new entities.
Editors and Affiliations
Sektion Physik/Elektronik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald, German Democratic Republic
Wolf-Dietrich Kraeft
Sektion Physik, Wilhelm-Pieck-Universität, Rostock, German Democratic Republic
Dietrich Kremp,
Gerd Röpke
Sektion Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Werner Ebeling
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Statistics of Charged Particle Systems
Editors: Wolf-Dietrich Kraeft, Dietrich Kremp, Werner Ebeling, Gerd Röpke
