Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics

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This book under review is an advanced study book which can be used by experienced graduate and postgraduate researchers. It deals with the quantum field theoretical formulation of condensed matter physics with a special focus on advanced methods, one-dimensional and spin systems, including electron-electron interaction and disorder. The book is not a text which can be read without a profound knowledge in solid state and many particle theory. It is clearly written for advanced students and researchers who have a detailed experience in solid state theory, especially in the field of second quantization, functional derivatives, Green's functions and many particle models. The book is very useful to obtain an overview on advanced topics and techniques in model many particle systems of solids -- if one is willing to go in detail through the calculations and to get, from time to time, complementary information from other sources. However, if used in such a way it will be a nice guide to the advanced methods in the description of highly correlated systems. And in that way it can be strongly recommended. Sometimes, even if the presentation is nice, some of the advanced topics may be hard to follow if you do not work hard enough or are not willing to become a specialist in the field. The topics treated after an introduction (which contains an overview on several convential methods (path integrals, correlation functions, Feynman diagrams) are: interacting fermions, non-Landau behavior and fluctuating spin systems as well as an extended description of one-dimensional models (common models like the Ising-, Heisenberg chain and the Luttinger liquid as well as more specialized operator algebras and conformal field theory). The book has some remarkable features: its interpretation of quantum field theory, the solely use of correlation functions and its very direct way to the top ten of the theoretical methods in correlated many particle theory. For a review of the first ed (1996) see Zbl 0968.82001.




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