Course on Many-Body Theory Applied to Solid-State Physics, a

Charles Paul Enz

The main aim of this book is to give a self-contained and representative cross section through present-day research in solid-state physics. This covers metallic and mesoscopic transport, localization by disorder and superconductivity, including questions related to high-temperature superconductors and to heavy fermion systems. An important part of the book is devoted to itinerant-electron magnetism, discussing paramagnons, strong correlation, magnetization fluctuations and spin density waves. All the formal tools used in these chapters are developed in the first part of the book which contains a thorough discussion of second quantization, and of perturbation theory for an arbitrary complex time path, and also describes the functional approach to Feynman diagrams, including general ward identities. Each chapter contains an extensive list of the relevant literature and a series of problems with detailed solutions which complement the main text. The book is meant as both a course and a research tool.

Michele Fabrizio

Philippe Nozières

This book provides a detailed exposition of field theoretical methods as applied to zero temperature Fermi liquids. It is a product of a course taught in 1959–1960 at the University of Paris in the "Troisieme Cycle" of Theoretical and Solid-State Physics.

Anna Minguzzi, Mario P. Tosi

Eberhard K. U. Gross, Reiner M. Dreizler, Gross E.K.U.

Density functional theory is a rapidly developing branch of many-particle physics that has found applications in atomic, molecular, solid state and nuclear physics. This text describes the conceptual framework of density functional theory and discusses in detail the derivation of explicit functionals from first principles as well as their application to Coulomb systems. Both non-relativistic and relativistic systems are treated. The connection of density functional theory with other many-body methods is highlighted. The presentation is self-contained; the book is thus suited for a graduate course on density functional theory.

Gnter Sauermann