Many Particle Physics (Physics of Solids and Liquids), 3rd edition Date: 24 April 2011, 01:10
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This comprehensive textbook utilizes Green’s functions and the equations derived from them to solve real physical problems in solid-state theoretical physics. Green’s functions are used to describe processes in solids and quantum fluids and to address problems in areas such as electron gas, polarons, electron transport, optical response, superconductivity and superfluidity. The updated third edition features several new chapters on different mean-free paths, Hubbard model, Coulomb blockade, and the quantum Hall effect. New sections have been added, while original sections have been modified to include recent applications. This text is ideal for third- or fourth-year graduate students and includes numerous study problems and an extensive bibliography. Summary: If you got here, you probably need this as a reference Rating: 5 Dr. Mahan has crafted a veritable encyclopedia of results and methods in quantum many body and beyond. Much more complete that others, much clearer, less pedantic, it also has the advantage of not being too wedded to any particular formalism (like e.g. Fetter Walecka does with Green functions). Dr. Mahan, does not force unifying frameworks on the issue at hand, but instead takes a more empirical approach, which allows him to present each problem in the most spontaneous and clear way. Highly recommended for all theoretical physicists. Summary: Good Book for reference Rating: 4 It certainly deserves the title for encyclopedia. Has a lot of thing. Must keep if you are into into condensed matter physics. But beware of misprints!! thats why 4 stars Summary: Good book but so much money Rating: 4 This book is massive and covers a huge spectrum of material. Probably not cost effective in comparison to Fetter and Walecka unless you get it for under eighty bucks. I enjoyed it quite a bit until the Postal Service stole it from me. Summary: Containing too many misprints. Rating: 3 Unfortunately, the 3rd edition of Mahan’s book contains enormous number of misprints. Sometimes, it is impossible to understand what is meant by the author without consulting the previous edition. For example, in Sec. 4.1.5. the author refers in the text to the equation which apparently should be between Eqs. (4.126) and (4.127) but which had been omitted. At the same time, some evident drawbacks of the previous edition have not been corrected. For example, the definition of the thermodynamic average used in Sec. 3.6 is different from that used in the previous sections, although it is not mentioned in the text. Despite the book is an excellent introduction into the field of Many-Particle Physics, I would recommend to the customer to either buy the previous edition or to wait for a new one. Summary: Bien detaille, comprehensible. Rating: 5 Un excellent livre sur un sujet d’actualite. G. Mahan discute de nombreuses en detaillant a chaque fois les etapes necessaires et en ne negligeant pas les explications ni les liens entre les differentes theories. Vu le prix, courez a votre bibliotheque pour vous le procurer!
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