TY - BOOK AU - Henrik Bruus ,Karsten Flensberg TI - Many-Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction SN - 9780198566335 U1 - 530.12 PY - 2004/// CY - NewYork PB - Oxford N1 - 1:First and second quantization 2:The electron gas 3:Phonons: coupling to electrons 4:Mean field theory 5:Time evolution pictures 6:Linear response theory 7:Transport in mesoscopic systems 8:Green's functions 9:Equation of motion theory 10:Transport in interacting mesoscopic systems 11:Imaginary time Green's functions 12:Feynman diagrams and external potentials 13:Feynman diagrams and pair interactions 14:The interacting electron gas 15:Fermi liquid theory 16:Impurity scattering and conductivity 17:Green's functions and phonons 18:Superconductivity 19:1D electron gases and Luttinger liquids N2 - Basic introduction focused on modern applications Teaches condensed matter physics from the modern many-body quantum theory point of view Provides students with skills necessary to read research papers in the field Grown out of lecture notes, including a large number of pedagogical exercises Many examples (electron systems, transport theory, etc) with sufficient detail for self-study ER -