Quantum Statistical Mechanics / Edition 1

by Leo P. Kadanoff, Gordon Baym, David Pines

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367320102
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/07/2019
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Pines

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