Path Integral Approach to Quantum Physics
Subtitle: An Introduction (Texts and Monographs in Physics)
Contributors: Roger Balian (Editor); Wolf Beiglbock (Editor); Harald Grosse (Editor); Elliott H. Lieb (Editor); Nicolai Reshetikhin (Editor); Herbert Spohn (Editor); Walter Thirring (Editor)
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9783540611066
Subjects: Atomic & molecular physics; Probability & statistics; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics); Science/Mathematics; Science; Physics
Description: The present text is designed to introduce graduate students to the functional integration method in contemporary physics as painlessly as possible. The author concentrates on the conceptual problems inherent in the path integral formalism. The striking interplay between stochastic processes, statistical physics and quantum mechanics comes to the fore. The reader will find all the methods of fundamental interest amply illustrated by important physical examples.