The flow equation approach to many-particle systems (Q2503440)

In this book, the author develops the flow-equation approach to quantum many-body physics introduced by Wegner Glazek and Wilson in the ninetees. Although the method shares some common features with the scaling approach used in the familiar renormalization group method, it allows to keep most of the degrees of freedom of the model. In a first part, basic ideas on flow equations are presented, focusing on technical aspects in order to show the applicability of the method to specific examples, the first of them being the potential scattering model, considered as a toy model for many-body physics. Then true many body problems are analyzed, among them the Kondo model of strongly correlated electrons. Finally, two interesting modern developments of the technique are given: the sine-Gordon model of 1D interacting bosons, and the non-equilibrium version of the Kondo model, when a voltage bias is present.