This book is concerned with a single group of quantum liquids, normal Fermi liqztids, discussing the nature of elementary excitations, the central concept of response functions. It is intended as a text for a graduate course in quantum statistical mechanics or low temperature theory.

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Utgivningsdatum:1989-01-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:512 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:380
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:9780201407747

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David Pines is research professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has made pioneering contributions to an understanding of many-body problems in condensed matter and nuclear physics, and to theoretical astrophysics. Editor of Perseus' Frontiers in Physics series and former editor of American Physical Society's Reviews of Modern Physics, Dr. Pines is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, a foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Pines has received a number of awards, including the Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal for Contributions to Many-Body Theory the P.A.M. Dirac Silver Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and the Friemann Prize in Condensed Matter Physics.

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Publisher’s Foreword -- Advanced Book Classics -- Vita -- Special Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- Neutral Fermi Liquids -- Response and Correlation in Neutral Systems -- Charged Fermi Liquids -- Response and Correlation in Homogeneous Electron Systems -- Microscopic Theories of The Electron Liquid -- Second Quantization