Microscopic Quantum Many-Body Theories and Their Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. The coupled cluster method

   • Raymond F. Bishop

   Pages 1-70

3. Atomic and molecular applications of the coupled cluster method

   • Uzi Kaldor

   Pages 71-92

4. A thermal cluster-cumulant theory

   • Sheikh Hannan Mandal, Goutam Sanyal, Debashis Mukherjee

   Pages 93-117

5. Correlated basis function theory for fermion systems

   • Stefano Fantoni, Adelchi Fabrocini

   Pages 119-186

6. Inhomogeneous quantum liquids: Statics, dynamics, and thermodynamics

   • Eckhard Krotscheck

   Pages 187-250

7. Some applications of correlated basis function theories in finite and infinite nuclear systems

   • Adelchi Fabrocini

   Pages 251-267

8. Monte carlo methods in quantum many-body theories

   • Rafael Guardiola

   Pages 269-336

9. Monte carlo calculations of nuclei

   • Steven C. Pieper

   Pages 337-357

10. Diffusion Monte Carlo for excited states: Application to liquid helium

    • Jordi Boronat

    Pages 359-379

Quantum many-body theories have become an essential tool for all physicists. The field is interdisciplinary, predicting the properties of macroscopic matter based on the fundamental interactions between the elementary constituents. This book presents a systematic and pedagogical approach to the coupled cluster method, correlated basis function theory and Monte Carlo methods. These topics are widely recognized and provide the most powerful and widely applicable theories of all available formulations of QMBT. As the future evolution of QMBT depends to a large measure on establishing links between these different methods, the authors discuss hyprid procedures that can build even further upon the huge strengths and great advantages of each theory.

• Monte Carlo method
• cluster
• diffusion
• dynamics
• fundamental interaction
• thermodynamics

"This book’s aim is to provide training in the main subjects of quantum many-body theories, in order to understand and predict the properties of macroscopic matter arising from the interactions between its elementary constituents, with an interdisciplinary perspective, and from the development of fundamental theoretical techniques to practical applications. [...] This book will be valuable for graduate students and researchers interested in the study of quantum many-body systems in particle, nuclear, molecular, atomic or condensed matter physics, or in quantum optics and quantum field theory." (Mathematical Reviews 2001f)

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