A pedagogical introduction to nonequilibrium theory, time-dependent phenomena and excited state properties, for graduate students and researchers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Second quantization; 2. Getting familiar with second quantization: model Hamiltonians; 3. Time-dependent problems and equations of motion; 4. The contour idea; 5. Many-particle Green's functions; 6. One-particle Green's function; 7. Mean field approximations; 8. Conserving approximations: two-particle Green's function; 9. Conserving approximations: self-energy; 10. MBPT for the Green's function; 11. MBPT and variational principles for the grand potential; 12. MBPT for the two-particle Green's function; 13. Applications of MBPT to equilibrium problems; 14. Linear response theory: preliminaries; 15. Linear response theory: many-body formulation; 16. Applications of MBPT to nonequilibrium problems; Appendices; Index.
