Research Catalog

Title

Interacting electrons and quantum magnetism / Assa Auerbach.

Author

Auerbach, Assa.

Publication

New York : Springer-Verlag, 1994.

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Description

xiii, 255 p. ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Graduate texts in contemporary physics

Uniform Title

Graduate texts in contemporary physics.

Subject

• Electron-electron interactions
• Energy-band theory of solids
• Magnetism
• Path integrals
• Wave functions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Electron Interactions in Solids -- 2. Spin Exchange -- 3. The Hubbard Model and Its Descendants -- 4. Ground States of the Hubbard Model -- 5. Ground States of the Heisenberg Model -- 6. Disorder in Low Dimensions -- 7. Spin Representations -- 8. Variational Wave Functions and Parent Hamiltonians -- 9. From Ground States to Excitations -- 10. The Spin Path Integral -- 11. Spin Wave Theory -- 12. The Continuum Approximation -- 13. Nonlinear Sigma Model: Weak Coupling -- 14. The Nonlinear Sigma Model: Large N -- 15. Quantum Antiferromagnets: Continuum Results -- 16. SU(N) Heisenberg Models -- 17. The Large N Expansion -- 18. Schwinger Bosons Mean Field Theory -- 19. The Semiclassical Theory of the t -- J Model -- Appendix A: Second Quantization -- Appendix B: Linear Response and Generating Functionals -- Appendix C: Bose and Fermi Coherent States -- Appendix D: Coherent State Path Integrals -- Appendix E: The Method of Steepest Descents.

ISBN

• 0387942866
• 3540942866

LCCN

^^^94006510^

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Harvard Library