Path Integrals: And Their Applications in Quantum, Statistical and Solid State Physics

✍ Scribed by K. K. Thornber (auth.), George J. Papadopoulos, J. T. Devreese (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 516
• Series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series 34
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
An Introduction to Feynman Path Integrals....Pages 1-2
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Continuous Representations and Path Integrals, Revisited....Pages 5-38
Path Integral Associated with the Fokker-Planck Equation....Pages 39-60
Some Aspects of Functional Integrals and Many Body Theory....Pages 61-83
Path Integrals in Quantum and Statistical Physics....Pages 85-162
Path Integrals and The Relation Between Classical and Quantum Mechanics....Pages 163-200
Explicit Functional Integration Method for Determining Approximate Stationary States in Quantum Field Theories....Pages 201-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Useful Bounds on Interesting Quantities by Path Integrals....Pages 239-284
Path Integrals and Polymer Problems....Pages 285-313
Path Integrals and Continuum Fröhlich Polarons....Pages 315-357
Applications of Path Integrals to Problems in Dissipation....Pages 359-382
Functional Integral Approach to Some Models of Solid State Physics....Pages 383-418
The Interacting Bose Fluid: Path Integral Representations and Renormalization Group Approach....Pages 419-454
Functional Equations and Their Treatment in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics....Pages 455-477
Front Matter....Pages 479-479
Semi-Classical Approximation to Path Integrals — Phases and Catastrophes....Pages 481-491
Current Saturation in Cds....Pages 493-500
Back Matter....Pages 501-515

✦ Subjects

Solid State Physics; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory