Quantum Statistical Mechanics by Gordon Baym, David Pines, Le... - 9780201410464

CRC Press

This book is a very early systematic treatment of the application of the field-theoretical methods developed after the Second World War to the quantum mechanical many-body problem at finite temperature. It describes various techniques that remain basic tools of modern condensed matter physicists. > This book is a very early systematic treatment of the application of the field-theoretical methods developed after the Second World War to the quantum mechanical many-body problem at finite temperature. It describes various techniques that remain basic tools of modern condensed matter physicists. > Publisher\u2019s Foreword -- Advanced Book Classics -- Vita -- Special Preface -- Editor\u2019s Foreword -- Preface -- Mathematical Introduction -- Information Contained in G>and G< -- The Hartree and Hartree-Fock Approximations -- Effect of Collisions on G -- A Technique for Deriving Green\u2019s Function Approximations -- Transport Phenomena -- The Hartree Approximation, the Collisy