This volume shows how the analytic properties in the complex energy plane of the Green's functions of many particle systems account for the physical effects (level, shifts, damping, instabilities) characteristic of interacting systems. It concentrates on general physical principles and, while it does not discuss experiments in detail, includes introductions to topics of current research interest, such as singularities (X-ray, Kondo) associated with transient perturbations in an electron gas, the Mott metal - insulator transition in correlated electron systems, and the phenomenon of high T0 superconductivity. This work grew out of a course of graduate lectures given by S. Doniach at the University of London. It will appeal to beginning graduate students in theoretical solid state physics as an introduction to more comprehensive or more specialized texts and also to experimentalists who would like a quick view of the subject. A basic knowledge of solid state physics and quantum mechanics at graduate level is assumed.
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good companion,
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I liked this book a lot because it teaches this stuff through examples of when some seemingly abstract quantities are actually observables, but this approach is not always as lucid as a formal text because the general results need sometimes be distilled from the examples. I think it makes a great companion (esp. since it's not terribly expensive) to like a Fetter/Walecka or Abrikosov et al. or whatever more general text you like.
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Good for a grasp of the essential physics.,
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When I was learning many body physics course one years ago, I found this book is very hopeful because it is clearly written and is focused on essential physics instead of rigorous mathematics.Of cause Mahan¡¯s book is better for a big reference book. And Fetter¡¯s book is better if you want more mathematics.
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The science of condensed matter (thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, etc.) is in many ways much older than that of the atomic constituents. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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unlinked diagrams, insulating magnet, dense electron gas, pairing hamiltonian, photoemission cross section, phonon problem, cuprate compounds, atomic limit, mean field limit, superconducting ground state, dielectric response function, slave bosons, iteration series, interacting electron gas, retarded function, harmonic lattice, impurity case, anticommutation rules, fermion operators, boson operators, perturbation series, single impurity, electronic specific heat, impurity potential, instability point Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, George Green, Soviet Physics, The Nature of the X-ray Singularity, Thermodynamic Properties of the Electron Gas, After Clogston, Derivation of Hartree-Fock Approximation, Nuovo Cimento, Temperature Dependent Electrical Resistivity Due, Theory of Superconductivity New!
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- Solid State Physics: Advances in Research and Applications, Vol. 32 by Henry Ehrenreich on 5 pages
- Solid State Physics: Advances in Research and Applications, Vol. 44 by Henry Ehrenreich on 5 pages
- Statistical Mechanics (North-Holland Personal Library) by R. Kubo on page 299, and page 307
- Theory Of Superconductivity (Advanced Books Classics) by J. Robert Schrieffer on page 304, and page 307
- Quantum Statistical Mechanics (Advanced Books Classics) by Leo P. Kadanoff on page 297, and page 299
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