Quantum theory of many-particle systems /

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Author / Creator:Fetter, Alexander L., 1937-
Imprint:Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2003.
Description:xvi, 601 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6214265
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Other authors / contributors:Walecka, John Dirk, 1932-
ISBN:0486428273 (pbk.)
Notes:Originally published: San Francisco, McGraw-Hill, c1971.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part 1. Introduction
  • 1. Second Quantization
  • 2. Statistical Mechanics
  • Part 2. Ground-state (Zero-temperature) Formalism
  • 3. Green's Functions and Field Theory (Fermions)
  • 4. Fermi Systems
  • 5. Linear Response and Collective Modes
  • 6. Bose Systems
  • Part 3. Finite-Temperature Formalism
  • 7. Field Theory at Finite Temperature
  • 8. Physical Systems at Finite Temperature
  • 9. Real-Time Green's Functions and Linear Response
  • Part 4. Canonical Transformations
  • Part 5. Applications to Physical Systems
  • 11. Nuclear Matter
  • 12. Phonons and Electrons
  • 13. Superconductivity
  • 14. Superfluid Helium
  • 15. Applications to Finite Systems: The Atomic Nucleus
  • Appendix A. Definite Integrals
  • Appendix B. Review of the Theory of Angular Momentum
  • Index