Many Particle Physics

The first, second, and third editions of this book seem to occur at ten year intervals. Journals only publish new results, conferences only invite speakers to report new phenomena, and agencies only fund scientists to do new physics. New sections have been added, while old sections have been modified to include recent applications. This comprehensive textbook utilizes Green's functions and the equations derived from them to solve real physical problems in solid-state theoretical physics. Green's functions are used to describe processes in solids and quantum fluids and to address problems in areas such as electron gas, polarons, electron transport, optical response, superconductivity and superfluidity. The updated third edition features several new chapters on different mean-free paths, Hubbard model, Coulomb blockade, and the quantum Hall effect. This text should be of interest to third or fourth-year graduate students and includes numerous study problems and an extensive bibliography.