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Quantum statistical field theory : an introduction to Schwinger's variational method with Green's function nanoapplications, graphene and superconductivity / Norman J. Morgenstern Horing,

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International series of monographs on physics ; 166.Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.Description: xv, 434 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780198791942
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.143 23 H811
Contents:
Dirac notation and transformation theory -- Identical particles and second quantization: occupation number representation -- Q.M. pictures; Heisenberg equation; linear response; superoperators and non-Markovian equations -- Schwinger action principle and variational calculus -- Retarded Green's functions -- Quantum mechanical ensemble averages and statistical thermodynamics -- Thermodynamic Green's functions and spectral structure -- Equations of motion with particle-particle interactions and approximations -- Non-equilibrium Green's functions: variational relations and approximations for particle interactions -- Random phase approximation plasma phenomenology, semiclassical and hydrodynamic models; electrodynamics -- Interacting electron-hole-phonon system -- Graphene -- Superfluidity and superconductivity -- Epilogue.
Summary: The methods of coupled quantum field theory, which have played a major role in the extensive development of nonrelativistic quantum many-particle theory and condensed matter physics, are at the core of this book.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dirac notation and transformation theory --
Identical particles and second quantization: occupation number representation --
Q.M. pictures; Heisenberg equation; linear response; superoperators and non-Markovian equations --
Schwinger action principle and variational calculus --
Retarded Green's functions --
Quantum mechanical ensemble averages and statistical thermodynamics --
Thermodynamic Green's functions and spectral structure --
Equations of motion with particle-particle interactions and approximations --
Non-equilibrium Green's functions: variational relations and approximations for particle interactions --
Random phase approximation plasma phenomenology, semiclassical and hydrodynamic models; electrodynamics --
Interacting electron-hole-phonon system --
Graphene --
Superfluidity and superconductivity --
Epilogue.

The methods of coupled quantum field theory, which have played a major role in the extensive development of nonrelativistic quantum many-particle theory and condensed matter physics, are at the core of this book.

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