Elements of Advanced Quantum Theory

J. M. Ziman (Author)

9780521099493, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 May 1975

284 pages, 2 b/w illus. 2 tables
22.8 x 15 x 1.9 cm, 0.427 kg

'An unqualified success.' S. M. Blinder, Journal of the American Chemical Society

This is a textbook of advanced quantum theory for graduate students and research workers which gives a connected mathematical derivation of the important results, concentrating on the central ideas without burdening the exposition with elaborate detail or unnecessary rigour, and explains, in the simplest possible terms, the symbols and concepts which frequently confront the active research worker in solid state, nuclear and high-energy physics, and in theoretical chemistry. Professor Ziman brings to his task the sympathetic guidance of a lecturer who has not forgotten the difficulties that he himself had to surmount in mastering his subject.

Preface
1. Bosons
2. Fermions
3. Perturbation theory
4. Green functions
5. Some aspects of the many-body problems
6. Relativistic formulations
7. The algebra of symmetry
Index.

Subject Areas: Quantum physics [quantum mechanics & quantum field theory PHQ]