Department of Physics and Astronomy

Physics 8164 Bibliography

In general, I will distribute xerox copies of written lecture notes which will be based on a variety of textbooks and review articles on quantum many-body theory. Our main textbook, in particular regarding second quantization and Greens function techniques, will be the book by Fetter and Walecka.

General textbooks on Quantum Many-Body Theory

A. L. Fetter and J. D. Walecka, "Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems", doverpublications.com, ~$35 paperback, ISBN 0-486-42827-3.

J.-P. Blaizot and G. Ripka, "Quantum Theory of Finite Systems", MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986)

J. A. Maruhn, P.-G. Reinhard and E. Suraud, "Simple Models of Many-Fermion Systems", Springer Verlag (2010)

Computational Quantum Many-Body Theory

Kalman Varga and Joseph A. Driscoll, "Computational Nanoscience: Applications for Molecules, Clusters, and Solids", Cambridge Univ. Press 2011

AIP Conference Proceedings 260, "Computational Quantum Physics", Nashville, TN (1991), ed. A.S. Umar, V.E. Oberacker, M.R. Strayer, and C. Bottcher, American Institute of Physics (New York, 1992)

Multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock theory of atoms

C. Froese Fischer, Tomas Brage, and Per Jonsson, "Computational atomic structure : an MCHF approach" Institute of Physics Publ., (Bristol, UK ; Philadelphia, Penn ; 1997)

Quantum Many-Body Theory of atomic nuclei

W. Greiner and J.A. Maruhn, Nuclear Models, Springer Verlag (1996)

P. Ring and P. Schuck, "The nuclear many-body problem", Springer Verlag (New York, 1980)

A. deShalit and H. Feshbach, "Theoretical Nuclear Physics", Vol. 1 , Wiley (New York, 1974)

Review articles on Quantum Many-Body Theory

The following review articles can be viewed and downloaded from VU Library (electronic journals):

1) "Density functional theory: its origins, rise to prominence, and future": R.O. Jones, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 87 (2015), p. 897-923

2) Multi-electron atom in strong time-dependent laser field: K.C. Kulander, Phys. Rev. A36 (1987) 2726

3) Self-consistent mean-field models for nuclear structure: M. Bender, P.-H. Heenen, and P.-G. Reinhard, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 75, No.1 (2003), pages 121-180

4) Cedric Simenel, "Nuclear quantum many-body dynamics - From collective vibrations to heavy-ion collisions", Eur. Phys. J. A 48, 152 (2012)