Microscopic quantum many-body theories and their applications
Subtitle: proceedings of a European summer school, held at Valencia, Spain, 8-19 September 1997
By: Jesús Navarro, Artur Polls (eds.).
Contributors: Navarro, Jesús, 1949-; Polls, A.; European Summer School on Microscopic Many-Body Theories and their Applications (1997 : Valencia, Spain)
Series: Lecture notes in physics,; 510
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Many-body problem -- Congresses.; Quantum theory -- Congresses.; Functions -- Congresses.; Cluster analysis -- Congresses.; Monte Carlo method -- Congresses.
Description: Quantum many-body theories have become an essential tool for all physicists. The field is interdisciplinary, predicting the properties of macroscopic matter based on the fundamental interactions between the elementary constituents. This book presents a systematic and pedagogical approach to the coupled cluster method, correlated basis function theory and Monte Carlo methods. These topics are widely recognized and provide the most powerful and widely applicable theories of all available formulations of QMBT. As the future evolution of QMBT depends to a large measure on establishing links between these different methods, the authors discuss hyprid procedures that can build even further upon the huge strengths and great advantages of each theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"European Summer School on Microscopic Many-Body Theories and their Applications, held in Valencia, Spain, 8-19 September 1997"--Pref.