Quantum statistical mechanics

✍ Scribed by Kadanoff L.P., Baym G.

• Book ID: 127432967
• Publisher: W.A. Benjamin, Inc. New York 1962
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Frontiers in Physics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

These lectures are devoted to a discussion of the use of thermo- dynamic Green's functions in describing the properties of many- particle systems. These functions provide a method for discussing finite-temperature problems with no more conceptual difficulty than ground-state (i.e., zero-temperature) problems; the method is equally applicable to boson and fermion systems, equilibrium and nonequilibrium problems.