Piers Coleman

Introduction to Many-Body Physics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains the tools and concepts needed for a research-level understanding of the subject, for graduate students in condensed matter physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 810
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 209mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1900g
• ISBN-13: 9780521864886
• ISBN-10: 0521864887
• Artikelnr.: 36138803

Autorenporträt

Piers Coleman is a Professor in the Center for Materials Theory at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. A major contributor to the theory of interacting electrons in condensed matter, he invented the 'slave boson' approach to strongly correlated electron systems. He has a long-standing interest in highly correlated d- and f-electron materials, in novel forms of superconductivity and the unsolved problems of quantum criticality in metals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Scales and complexity
2. Quantum fields
3. Conserved particles
4. Simple examples of second-quantization
5. Green's functions
6. Landau Fermi liquid theory
7. Zero temperature Feynman diagrams
8. Finite temperature many-body physics
9. Fluctuation dissipation and linear response theory
10. Electron transport theory
11. Phase transitions and broken symmetry
12. Path integrals
13. Path integrals and itinerant magnetism
14. Superconductivity and BCS theory
15. Retardation and anisotrophic pairing
16. Local moments and the Kondo effect
17. Heavy electrons
18. Mixed valence, fluctuations and topology
19. Epilogue: the challenge of the future
Index.

Rezensionen

'... the field has advanced tremendously since the 1960s. Subsequent decades saw great progress in addressing new many-body systems - such as those exhibiting the Kondo effect, disordered systems, superfluid helium-3, and unconventional superconductors - and the development of new tools, such as functional integrals and the renormalization group. Students and instructors of quantum many-body physics need an updated, modern textbook that covers those developments. [This book] successfully fills the need. Coleman, an eminent condensed-matter theorist at Rutgers University, covers his subject with pedagogical flair and attention to detail ... A reader who has mastered the material in this excellent book should be in a strong position to take on problems that have resisted conventional solutions.' Mohit Randeria, Physics Today