Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 06, 2012
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781461269281
Description: This book emphasizes the role that electron interactions play in the properties of condensed matter. It teaches the use of the powerful nonperturbative techniques that have become available in the last decades to discuss such topics as mixed valence systems, Kondo systems, heavy electrons, high-temperature copper oxide superconductors, the quantum Hall effect, and low-dimensional isotropic magnets. Mathematical derivations are self contained. Appendices provide standard many-body tools including second quantization, Grassmann variables, generating functionals, linear response, correlation functions, Fermi and Bose coherent-states path integrals, Matsubara representation, and the method of steepest descents. There are guided bibliographies and exercises at the end of each chapter.
Notes: Source title: Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism (Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics)