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APPLICATION OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY METHODS TO THE MANY BODY PROBLEM

Viktor Mikhaĭlovich Galit︠s︡kiĭ, A.B. Migdal

Published Jan 1, 1958• 41 citations

Abstract

It is shown that the energy and damping of quasiparticles are determined by the poles of a single-particle propagation function. The relation between the two-particle Green's function and the kinetic equation is established. (tr-auth)

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