Many-Bodied Theory Exposed! : Propagator Description of Quantum Mechanics in Many-Body Systems, 2nd Edition (Hardback)

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VERY GOOD: This book is in very good condition, with only slightly bent corners showing use and wear. The pages are free of writing.

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Continued from the back cover: "The comparison with data is incorporated from the start, making the abstract concept of propagators vivid and accessible. Results of numerical calculations using propagators or Green's functions are also presented. The material has been thoroughly tested in the classroom and the introductory chapters provide a seamless connection with a one-year graduate course in quantum mechanics. While the majority of books on many-body theory deal with the subject form the viewpoint of condensed matter physics, this book emphasizes finite systems as well and should be of considerable interest to researchers in nuclear, atomic, and molecular physics. A unified treatment of many different many-body systems is presented using the approach of self-consistent Green's functions. The second edition contains an extensive presentation of finite temperature propagators and covers the technique to extract the self-energy from experimental data as developed in the dispersive optical model.

"The coverage proceeds systematically from elementary concepts, such as second quantization and mean-field properties, to a more advanced but self-contained presentation of the physics of atoms, molecules, nuclei, nuclear and neutron matter, electron gas, quantum liquids, atomic Bose-Einstein and fermion condensates, and paring correlations in finite and infinite systems, including finite temperature."

Chapters

1. Identical particles
2. Second quantization
3. Independent-particle model for fermions in finite systems
4. Two-particle states and interactions
5. Noninteracting bosons and fermions
6. Propagators in one-particle quantum mechanics
7. Single-particle propagator in the many-body system
8. Perturbation expansion of the single-particle propagator
9. Dyson equation and self-consistent Green's functions
10. Mean-field or Hartree-Fock approximation
11. Beyond the mean-field approximation
12. Interacting boson systems
13. Excited states in finite systems
14. Excited states in infinite systems
15. Excited states in N ± 2 systems and in-medium scattering
16. Dynamical treatment of the self-energy in infinite systems
17. Dynamical treatment of the self-energy in finite systems
18. Bogoliubov perturbation expansion for the Bose gas
19. Boson perturbation theory applied to physical systems
20. In-medium interaction and scattering of dressed particles
21. Conserving approximations and exited states
22. Pairing phenomena
23. Elastic scattering and the self-energy in finite systems
24. Finite-temperature formalism and applications

Appendices

1. Pictures in quantum mechanics
2. Practical results from angular momentum algebra