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Several topics, not available in other books, in particular the description of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, have been included. The coverage proceeds in a systematic way from elementary concepts, such as second quantization and mean-field properties, to a more advanced but self-contained presentation of the physics of atoms, molecules, nuclei, nuclear and neutron matter, electron gas, quantum liquids, atomic Bose-Einstein and fermion condensates, and pairing correlations in finite and infinite systems.
List of contents
Identical Particles; Second Quantization; Independent-Particle Model for Fermions in Finite Systems; Two-Particle States and Interactions; Noninteracting Bosons and Fermions; Propagators in One-Particle Quantum Mechanics; Single-Particle Propagator in the Many-Body System; Perturbation Expansion of the Single-Particle Propagator; Dyson Equation and Self-Consistent Green's Functions; Mean-Field or Hartree-Fock Approximation; Beyond the Mean-Field Approximation; Interacting Boson Systems; Excited States in Finite Systems; Excited States in Infinite Systems; Excited States in N 2 Systems and In-Medium Scattering; Dynamical Treatment of the Self-Energy in Infinite Systems; Dynamical Treatment of the Self-Energy in Finite Systems; Bogoliubov Perturbation Expansion for the Bose Gas; Boson Perturbation Theory Applied to Physical Systems; In-Medium Interaction and Scattering of Dressed Particles; Conserving Approximations and Excited States; Pairing Phenomena.
