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Providing a broad review of many techniques and their application to condensed matter systems, this book begins with a review of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, before moving onto real and imaginary time path integrals and the link between Euclidean quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. A detailed study of the Ising, gauge-Ising and XY models is included. The renormalization group is developed and applied to critical phenomena, Fermi liquid theory and the renormalization of field theories. Next, the book explores bosonization and its applications to one-dimensional fermionic systems and the correlation functions of homogeneous and random-bond Ising models. It concludes with Bohm-Pines and Chern-Simons theories applied to the quantum Hall effect. Introducing the reader to a variety of techniques, it opens up vast areas of condensed matter theory for both graduate students and researchers in theoretical, statistical and condensed matter physics.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521592109
eBay Product ID (ePID)238824077
Product Key Features
Number of Pages450 Pages
Publication NameQuantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter: an Introduction
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPhysics
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
AuthorRamamurti Shankar
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height254 mm
Item Weight1050 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorRamamurti Shankar