TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thouless,David J.
TI  - Quantum mechanics of many-body systems
SN  - 9780486493572 (paperback)
U1  - 530.144 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Mineola
PB  - Dover Publications, Inc., 
KW  - Many-body problem
KW  - Quantum theory
N1  - "Unabridged republication of the second edition of the work, originally published in the Pure and applied physics series by Academic Press, Inc., New York, in 1972"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; I. Introduction --
II. Soluble models --
III. Variational methods --
IV. Perturbation theory --
V. Low-lying excited states --
VI. Impurities and random systems --
VII. Statistical mechanics and superconductivity theory --
VIII. Perturbation theory at finite temperatures --
IX. Green functions at finite temperatures --
X. Bosons
N2  - The text's main thematic approaches include the self-consistent field and its generalizations, perturbation theory and the use of Feynman diagrams, and the use of Green functions to describe excitations of a many-body system. The primary emphasis is on the theories of atomic nuclei, the electron gas, superconductivity, and liquid helium three. A familiarity with the principles of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics is assumed, but a detailed knowledge of nuclear and solid state physics is unnecessary
ER  -