Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter

Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter An Introduction

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Publisher's Synopsis

Providing a broad review of many techniques and their application to condensed matter systems, this book begins with a review of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, before moving onto real and imaginary time path integrals and the link between Euclidean quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. A detailed study of the Ising, gauge-Ising and XY models is included. The renormalization group is developed and applied to critical phenomena, Fermi liquid theory and the renormalization of field theories. Next, the book explores bosonization and its applications to one-dimensional fermionic systems and the correlation functions of homogeneous and random-bond Ising models. It concludes with Bohm-Pines and Chern-Simons theories applied to the quantum Hall effect.  Introducing the reader to a variety of techniques, it opens up vast areas of condensed matter theory for both graduate students and researchers in theoretical, statistical and condensed matter physics.

Book information

ISBN: 9780521592109
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 530.143
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 450
Weight: 1062g
Height: 251mm
Width: 180mm
Spine width: 27mm