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From the back cover: "This volume provides a detailed account of bosonization. This important technique represents one of the most powerful nonperturbative approaches to many-body systems currently available.
"The first part of the book examines the technical aspects of bosonization. Topics include one-dimensional fermions, the Gaussian model, the structure of Hilbert space in conformal theories, Bose-Einstein condensation in two dimensions, non-Abelian bosonization, and the Ising and WZNW models. The second part presents applications of the bosonization technique to realistic models including the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, spin liquids in one dimension and the spin-½ Heisenberg chain with alternating exchange. The third part addresses the problems of quantum impurities. Chapters cover potential scattering, the X-ray edge problem, impurities in Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids and the multi-channel Kondo problem."
BRIEF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1: Technical aspects of bosonization
1 - A simple case of Bose-Fermi equivalence: Jordan-Wigner transformation
2 - One-dimensional fermions. States near the Fermi points
3 - Gaussian model. Lagrangian formulation
4 - Conformal symmetry and finite size effects
5 - Virasoro algebra
6 - Structure of Hilbert space in conformal theories
7 - Current (Kac-Moody) algebras: the first assault
8 - Relevant and irrelevant fields
9 - Bose-Einstein Condensation in two dimensions; Beresinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
10 - The sine-Gordon model
11 - Spin S = 1/2 Heisenberg-Ising chain
12 - Ising model
13 - More about the WZNW model
14 - Non-Abelian bosonization
PART II: Application of the bosonization technique to physical models in (1 + 1)-dimensions
15 - Interacting fermions with spin
16 - Spin-1/2 Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
17 - Instabilities of a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
18 - Interacting fermions with broken spin rotational symmetry
19 - What may happen with a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid in three dimensions
20 - Two weakly coupled Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids; spinless case
21 - Spin liquids in one dimension: example of spin ladders
22 - Spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with alternating exchange
