Quantum Statistical Mechanics - Green''s Function Methods in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Problems

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.

List 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

About the author

David Pines

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Baym, Baym Gordon, Leo P. Kadanoff, Leo P. Baym Kadanoff, Kadanoff Leo P., David Pines, Pines David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2019
• EAN: 9780367320102
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32010-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Physics / General, Physics