Quantum Field Theoretical Methods in Statistical Physics - 2nd Ed.

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Table of Contents
FOREWORD
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
TRANSLATION EDITOR'S NOTE
I. PROPERTIES OF MANY-PARTICLE SYSTEMS AT LOW TEMPERATURES
	§ 1. Elementary excitations. Energy spectrum and properties of liquid He4 at low temperatures
	§ 2. Fermi liquids
	§ 3. Second quantisation
	§ 4. Dilute Bose gas
	§ 5. Dilute Fermi gas
II. QUANTUM FIELD THEORETICAL METHODS AT T = 0
	§ 6. The interaction representation
	§ 7. The Green function
	§ 8. Basic principles of diagram techniques
	§ 9. Rules for drawing diagrams for different types of interaction
	§ 10. Dyson equation. The vertex part. Many-particle Green fnnctions
III. THE DIAGRAM TECHNIQUE AT FINITE TEMPERATURES
	§ 11. Temperature-dependent Green functions
	§ 12. Perturbation theory
	§ 13. The diagram technique in coordinate space. Examples
	§ 14. The diagram technique in momentum space
	§ 15. The perturbation theory series for the thermodynamic potential
	§ 16. Dyson equation. Many-particle Green functions
	§ 17. Time-dependant Green functions G at finite temperatures.Analytic properties of the Green functions
IV. FERMI LIQUID THEORY
	§ 18. Properties of the vertex part for small momentum transfer. Zero sound
	§ 19. Effective mass. Connection between Fermi momentum andnumber of particles. Bose branches of the spectrum. Specificheat
	§ 20. Special properties of the vertex part in the case where thetotal momentum of the colliding particles is small
	§ 21. Electron-phonon interactions
	§ 22. Some properties of a degenerate plasma
V. SYSTEM OF INTERACTING BOSONS
	§ 23. Application of field theory methods to a system of bosons atabsolute zero
	§ 24. Green functions
	§ 25. Dilute non-ideal Bose gas
	§ 26. Properties of the single-particle excitation spectrum close to its end-point
	§ 27. Application of field theory methods to a system of interactingbosons at finite temperatures
VI. ELECTROlMAGNETIC RADIATION IN AN ABSORBING MEDIUM
	§ 28. Radiation Green function in an absorbing medium
	§ 29. Calculation of the dielectric constant
	§ 30. Van der Waals forces in a non-uniform dielectric
	§ 31. Molecular interaction forces between solids
VII. THEORY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
	§ 32. General introduction. Choice of model
	§ 33. Cooper phenomenon. Instability of the ground state of a system of non-interacting fermions with respect to arbitrarily weak attractions between the particles
	§ 34.System of fundamental equations for a superconductor
	§ 35. Deduction of the superconductivity equations in the phonon model
	§ 36. Thermodynamics of superconductors
	§ 37. Supconductors in a weak electromagnetic field
	§ 38. Properties of superconductorS close to the transition temperature in an arbitrary magnetic field
	§ 39. Theory of superconducting alloys
VIII. TRANSPORT EQUATION FOR EXCITATIONS IN A FERMI LIQUID
	§ 40. Non-equilibrium properties of a Fermi liquid
	§ 41. The analytical properties of the vertex part
	§ 42. Equation for the vertex part; transport equation
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