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Title

A guide to Feynman diagrams in the many-body problem / Richard D. Mattuck.

Author

Mattuck, Richard D.

Publication

New York : Dover Publications, 1992.

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Description

xv, 429 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Dover books on physics and chemistry

Uniform Title

Dover books on physics and chemistry.

Subject

• Many-body problem
• Feynman diagrams
• Quasiparticles (Physics)
• Fermions
• Elementary particles

Note

• Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1976.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-421) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The many-body problem for everybody -- Feynman diagrams, or how to solve the many-body problem by means of pictures -- Classical quasi particles and the pinball propagator -- Quantum quasi particles and the quantum pinball propagator -- Quasi particles in Fermi systems -- Ground state energy and the vacuum amplitude or 'no-particle propagator' -- Bird's-eye view of diagram methods in the many-body problem -- Occupation number formalism (second quantization) -- More about quasi particles -- The single-particle propagator re-visited -- Dyson's equation, renormalization, RPA and ladder approximation -- Self-consistent renormalization and the existence of the Fermi surface -- Ground state energy of electron gas and nuclear matter -- Collective excitations and the two-particle propagator -- Fermi systems at finite temperature -- Diagram methods in superconductivity -- Phonons from a many-body viewpoint (reprint) -- Quantum field theory of phase transitions in Fermi systems -- Feynman diagrams in the Kondo problem -- The renormalization group -- Appendices -- Answers to exercises.

ISBN

0486670473 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^92004895^

OCLC

• 25508705
• SCSB-10467094

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library