Many-Particle Physics
3rd Edition
Published on 1. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 785 pages
978-1-4419-3339-3 (ISBN)
Description
The first, second, and third editions of this book seem to occur at ten year intervals. The intent is to keep the book up-to-date. Many-body theory is a field which continually evolves in time. Journals only publish new results, conferences only invite speakers to report new phenomena, and agencies only fund scientists to do new physics. Today's physics is old hat by tomorrow. Students want to learn new material, and textbooks must be modified to keep up with the times. The early chapters in this book teach the techniques of many-body theory. They are largely unchanged in format. The later chapters apply the techniques to specific problems. The third edition increases the number of applications. New sections have been added, while old sections have been modified to include recent applications. The previous editions were set in type using pre-computer technology. No computer file existed of the prior editions. The publisher scanned the second edition and gave me a disk with the contents. This scan recorded the words accurately and scrambled the equations into unintelligible form. So I retyped the equations using LaTeX. Although tedious, it allowed me to correct the infinite numbers of typographical errors in the previous edition. The earlier typesetting methods did not permit such corrections. The entire book was edited sentence-by sentence. Most old sections of the book were shortened by editing sentences and paragraphs.
Reviews / Votes
About the First Edition:` This is a worthy newcomer and will make an excellent teaching text. '
Physics Bulletin
` The book should serve as a valuable contribution to the library of students and researchers in solid state and theoretical physics. '
Philosophical Magazine
About the Second Edition:
` Since its first edition, this book has become one of the most popular textbooks in quantum many-body theory, thus guaranteeing the interest of the scientific community in this second edition. '
Mathematical Reviews
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Series
Edition
Third Edition 2000
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XII, 785 p.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1353 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4419-3339-3 (9781441933393)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-5714-9
Schweitzer Classification
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Gerald D. Mahan
Many-Particle Physics
E-Book
04/2013
3rd Edition
Springer
€234.33
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Gerald D. Mahan
Many-Particle Physics
Book
10/2000
3rd Edition
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
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Content
1. Introductory Material.- 2. Green's Functions at Zero Temperature.- 3. Nonzero Temperatures.- 4. Exactly Solvable Models.- 5. Homogeneous Electron Gas.- 6. Strong Correlations.- 7. Electron-Phonon Interaction.- 8. dc Conductivities.- 9. Optical Properties of Solids.- 10. Superconductivity.- 11. Superfluids.- References.- Author Index.