tsvelik a. m. quantum field theory in condensed matter physics

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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankQuantumFieldTheoryinCondensedMatterPhysicsThisbookisacourseinmodernquantumfieldtheoryasseenthroughtheeyesofatheoristworkingincondensedmatterphysics.Itcontainsagentleintroductiontothesubjectandcanthereforebeusedevenbygraduatestudents.Theintroductorypartsin

2、cludeaderiva-tionofthepathintegralrepresentation,FeynmandiagramsandelementsofthetheoryofmetalsincludingadiscussionofLandauFermiliquidtheory.Inlaterchaptersthediscus-siongraduallyturnstomoreadvancedmethodsusedinthetheoryofstronglycorrelatedsystems.Thebookcontainsathoroughexpositionofs

3、uchnonperturbativetechniquesas1/N-expansion,bosonization(Abelianandnon-Abelian),conformalfieldtheoryandtheoryofintegrablesystems.Thebookisintendedforgraduatestudents,postdoctoralassociatesandindependentresearchersworkingincondensedmatterphysics.alexeitsvelikwasbornin1954inSamara,Russi

4、a,graduatedfromanelitemathematicalschoolandthenfromMoscowPhysicalTechnicalInstitute(1977).HedefendedhisPhDintheoreticalphysicsin1980(thesubjectwasheavyfermionmetals).Hismostimportantcollaborativework(withWiegmannontheapplicationofBetheansatztomodelsofmagneticimpurities)startedin1980.

5、ThesummaryofthisworkwaspublishedasareviewarticleinAdvancesinPhysicsin1983.Duringtheyears1983–89AlexeiTsvelikworkedattheLandauInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics.AfterholdingseveraltemporaryappointmentsintheUSAduringtheyears1989–92,hesettledinOxford,werehespentnineyears.Since2001AlexeiTsve

6、likhasheldatenuredresearchappointmentatBrookhavenNationalLaboratory.Themainareaofhisresearchisstronglycorrelatedsystems(withaviewofapplicationtocondensedmatterphysics).Heisanauthororco-authorofapproximately120papersandtwobooks.Hismostimportantpapersincludepapersontheintegrablemodelso

7、fmagneticimpurities,papersonlow-dimensionalspinliquidsandpapersonapplicationsofconformalfieldtheorytosystemswithdisorder.AlexeiTsvelikhashadninegraduatestudentsofwhomsevenhaveremainedinphysics.QuantumFieldTheoryinCondensedMatterPhysicsAlexeiM.TsvelikDepartmentofPhysicsBrookhavenNation

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