Quantum statistical field theory : an introduction to Schwinger's variational method with Green's function nanoapplications, graphene and superconductivity / Norman J. Morgenstern Horing,
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TextSeries: International series of monographs on physics ; 166.Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.Description: xv, 434 pages ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780198791942
- 530.143 23 H811
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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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