Quantum statistical field theory : an introduction to Schwinger's variational method with Green's function nanoapplications, graphene and superconductivity / Norman J. Morgenstern Horing. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horing, Norman J. M., author.

Series:

International series of monographs on physics ; 166.

International series of monographs on physics ; 166

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum field theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The methods of coupled quantum field theory, which have played a major role in the extensive development of nonrelativistic quantum many-particle theory and condensed matter physics, are at the core of this work.

Contents:

Dirac notation and transformation theory

Identical particles and second quantization: occupation number representation

Q.M. pictures; Heisenberg equation; linear response; superoperators and non-Markovian equations

Schwinger action principle and variational calculus

Retarded Green's functions

Quantum mechanical ensemble averages and statistical thermodynamics

Thermodynamic Green's functions and spectral structure

Equations of motion with particle-particle interactions and approximations

Non-equilibrium Green's functions: variational relations and approximations for particle interactions

Random phase approximation plasma phenomenology, semiclassical and hydrodynamic models; electrodynamics

Interacting electron-hole-phonon system

Graphene

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Epilogue.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-183416-5