Many
Body Physics I
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Grades
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Topics:
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| * An introduction to Solid-State
Chemistry |
* An introduction to Band
structures
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| * Second quantisation: The
Hubbard model |
| * Green's functions and the
impurity problem: Peierls distortion |
| * Hartree-Fock: Magnetism in the
Hubbard model |
* The strong-coupling limit:
Nagaoka's theorem
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| * Classical and quantum spin
physics |
* Two particle Green's
functions
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References:
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1- Martin Long, "Techniques of
Many Body Physics", Lecture Notes (Postgraduate
Courses, Theoretical
Physics Research Group, Birmingham Uni.).
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2- G. Mahan, "Many Particle Physics",
(Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Publishing Corporation 2000, 3rd Edition).
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3- A. L. Fetter and J. D.
Walecka, "Quantum
Theory of Many Particle Systems", (McGraw-Hill Boodk
Company 1971).
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4- E K U
Gross, O. Heinonen and E Runge, "Many-Particle Theory", (Adam Hilger imprint by IOP Publishing Ltd. 1991).
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5- Ben Simons, "Concepts in
Theoretical Physics", (University of Cambridge 2001).
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6- P. Coleman, "Introduction
to Many Body Physcis", (Rutgers University 2004).
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| 7- John W. Negele and Henri
Orland, "Quantum Many-Particle Systems"
(Addison-Wesley, 1988). |
8-P. Coleman, "Many Body Physics: Unfinished Revolution",
condmat/0307004.
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9- Ph. A. Martin and F. Roten, "Many
Body Problems and Quantum Field Theory - An Introduction" (Springer
2002).
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10- Patrik Fazekas, "Lecture
Notes on Electron Correlation and Magnetism" (World Scientific1999).
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