Physics Bulletin

Many Electron Theory

Mark C. Jones

Published Jun 1, 1973• 1 citation

Abstract

S Raimes Amsterdam: North-Holland 1972 pp xi + 272 price $20·25 The author's rationale for this book is that there exists a gap between such undergraduate texts on solid state physics as his own Wave Mechanics of Electrons in Metals and the many body formulation of graphs and Green's functions used in more advanced treatises and research papers. This is not entirely true; Kittel's Quantum Theory of Solids, Mattuck's Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many Body Problem, Zinan's Elements of Advanced Quantum Theory and Fetter and Welecka's Quantum Theory of Many Particle Systems among others, have, to judge by their author's forewords, been aimed at filling the same gap – not without some success.

DOI: 10.1088/0031-9112/24/6/031

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