Many-body theory exposed! : propagator description of quantum mechanics in many-body systems / Willem H. Dickhoff, Dimitri Van Neck

Includes bibliographical references (pages 815-826) and index

Contents 1 Identical particles 2 Second quantization 3 Independent-particle model for fermions in finite systems 4 Two-particle states and interactions 5 Noninteracting bosons and fermions 6 Propagators in one-particle quantum mechanics 7 Single-particle propagator in the many-body system 8 Perturbation expansion of the single-particle propagator 9 Dyson equation and self-consistent Green's functions 10 Mean-field or Hartree-Fock approximation 15 Excited states in N [actual symbol not reproducible] 2 systems and in-medium scattering 16 Dynamical treatment of the self-energy in infinite systems 17 Dynamical treatment of the self-energy in finite systems 18 Bogoliubov perturbation expansion for the Bose gas 19 Boson perturbation theory applied to physical systems 20 In-medium interaction and scattering of dressed particles 21 Conserving approximations and excited states 22 Pairing phenomena 23 Elastic scattering and the self-energy in finite systems 24 Finite-temperature formalism and applications App. A Pictures in quantum mechanics App. B Practical results from angular momentum algebra Bibliography Index