TY - BOOK AU - Dickhoff,Willem Hendrik AU - Neck,Dimitri Van TI - Many-body theory exposed!: propagator description of quantum mechanics in many-body systems SN - 9812813802 AV - QC174.17.P7 D53 2008 PY - 2008///] CY - Singapore, Hackensack, NJ PB - World Scientific KW - Many-body problem N1 - 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 ER -