TY - BOOK AU - Horing,Norman J.Morgenstern TI - Quantum statistical field theory: an introduction to Schwinger's variational method with Green's function nanoapplications, graphene and superconductivity T2 - International series of monographs on physics SN - 9780198791942 U1 - 530.143 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Quantum field theory N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -