Condensed Matter Field Theory, 2/e (Hardcover)

Alexander Altland, Ben D. Simons

  • 出版商: Cambridge
  • 出版日期: 2010-04-30
  • 售價: $3,830
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$3,639
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 786
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0521769752
  • ISBN-13: 9780521769754
  • 相關分類: 物理學 Physics
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Modern experimental developments in condensed matter and ultracold atom physics present formidable challenges to theorists. This book provides a pedagogical introduction to quantum field theory in many-particle physics, emphasizing the applicability of the formalism to concrete problems. This second edition contains two new chapters developing path integral approaches to classical and quantum nonequilibrium phenomena. Other chapters cover a range of topics, from the introduction of many-body techniques and functional integration, to renormalization group methods, the theory of response functions, and topology. Conceptual aspects and formal methodology are emphasized, but the discussion focuses on practical experimental applications drawn largely from condensed matter physics and neighboring fields. Extended and challenging problems with fully worked solutions provide a bridge between formal manipulations and research-oriented thinking. Aimed at elevating graduate students to a level where they can engage in independent research, this book complements graduate level courses on many-particle theory.

Covers a range of topics from the introduction of many-body techniques and functional integration, to renormalization group methods, the theory of response functions, and topology Focuses on practical experimental applications drawn largely from condensed matter physics and neighboring fields Elevates graduate students to a level where they can engage in independent research

Table Of Contents

Preface;

1. From particle to fields;

2. Second quantization;

3. Feynman path integral;

4. Functional field integral;

5. Perturbation theory;

6. Broken symmetry and collective phenomena;

7. Response functions;

8. The renormalization group;

9. Topology;

10. Nonequilibrium (classical);

11. Nonequilibrium (quantum);

Index.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

現代凝聚態物理和超冷原子物理的實驗發展對理論家提出了巨大的挑戰。本書提供了量子場論在多粒子物理中的教學介紹,強調了形式主義在具體問題中的應用性。第二版新增了兩章,介紹了經典和量子非平衡現象的路徑積分方法。其他章節涵蓋了多體技術和泛函積分的介紹,重整化群方法,響應函數理論和拓撲學等多個主題。強調了概念性方面和形式方法論,但討論重點放在主要來自凝聚態物理和相鄰領域的實驗應用上。延伸且具有挑戰性的問題和完整的解答提供了形式操作和研究導向思維之間的橋樑。本書旨在提升研究生的水平,使他們能夠從事獨立研究,並作為多粒子理論研究生課程的補充。

目錄:
前言;
1. 從粒子到場;
2. 二次量子化;
3. 費曼路徑積分;
4. 泛函場積分;
5. 近似理論;
6. 破缺對稱和集體現象;
7. 響應函數;
8. 重整化群;
9. 拓撲學;
10. 非平衡(經典);
11. 非平衡(量子);
索引。