Lectures on The Many-Body Problems V2

Contributors

Preface

Introductory Remarks on Solid-State Physics

Discontinuities in the Drift Velocity of Ions in Liquid Helium

References

Density Fluctuation Excitations in Many-Particle Systems

I. Density Fluctuation Excitations: Collective Modes in Fermion Systems

II. Correlation and Response for Neutral Systems

III. Correlation and Response: Homogeneous Electron Systems

References

The Electron-Phonon Interaction in Normal and Superconducting Metals

I. Correlation Function Approach

II. Green's Function Approach

III. Specialization to a Metal

IV. The Superconductor

References

Special Effects in Superconductivity

I. Introduction

II. "Weak Superconductivity": The Josephson Tunneling Effect

III. Observability and Fluctuations

IV. Connection to General Many-Body Theory of Condensed States and "Broken Symmetry"

References

Tunneling from a Many-Particle Point of View

References

Superconductivity with p- and d-Wave Pairing

I. Introduction

II. The p-Wave Pairing

III. The d-Wave Pairing

References

Electrons in Disordered Systems

I. Introduction

II. Weak Potentials

III. Polycrystalline Materials

IV. Strong Potentials

V. Krönig-Penney Model

VI. Tight-Binding Case

VII. Three-Dimensional Problem

References

Oscillations of a Quantum Electron Gas in a Uniform Magnetic Field

I. Introduction

II. RPA Calculation of the Resonances

References

Temperature-Dependent Random Phase Approximations for the Heisenberg Ferromagnet

I. Introduction

II. Equations of Motion for Heisenberg Ferromagnet

III. Low Temperature Results

IV. High Temperature Results

V. The High-Density Expansion and RPA

References

Renormalization in Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

I. Introduction

II. Normal Systems

III. Superfluid Systems

IV. Explicit Construction of the Functionals

References

Liouville Representation of Quantum Mechanics with Application to Relaxation Processes

I. Introduction

II. The Liouville Representation

III. Interaction with a Reservoir

References

The Mathematics of Second Quantization for Systems of Fermions

I. Introduction

II. The Operation in Configuration Space

III. The Operation in Second Quantization

References

Correlation Functions and Macroscopic Equations

I. Illustrative Example

II. Application to One-Component Fluids

Author Index

Subject Index