Quantum Mechanics and Low-Temperature Thermodynamics of Many-Particle Systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 199-234
Author(s):  
Hans-Peter Eckle

Chapter 2 provides a review of pertinent aspects of the quantum mechanics of systems composed of many particles. It focuses on the foundations of quantum many-particle physics, the many-particle Hilbert spaces to describe large assemblies of interacting systems composed of Bosons or Fermions, which lead to the versatile formalism of second quantization as a convenient and eminently practical language ubiquitous in the mathematical formulation of the theory of many-particle systems of quantum matter. The main objects in which the formalism of second quantization is expressed are the Bosonic or Fermionic creation and annihilation operators that become, in the position basis, the quantum field operators.


2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (05) ◽  
pp. 895-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL G. FUDA

A brief review of the Bakamjian–Thomas method for constructing Poincaré invariant models of few-particle systems is presented. An application of the method to a simple model of the coupled N – πN – ππN system is outlined. This three-particle model contains vertex interactions as well as renormalization contributions.


2009 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Batten ◽  
Frank H. Stillinger ◽  
Salvatore Torquato

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
José Antônio Trindade Borges da Costa

Some fundamental concepts and mathematical tools of the quant um theory of many particle systems, which are indispensable to the study of solid state physics. are presented. The concepts of collective excitations and quasi-particles are stressed. Concerning the mathematical tools, Quantum Mechanics is presented in its general, representation independent formalism. The many-particle problem is approached in the occupation number representation, or second quantization. Finally, as an application the interaction between electrons and the vibrations of a crystal lattice, described in terms of elementary excitations of collective waves, i.e., phonons, is expressed and discussed within this framework.


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