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1、Finite-TemperatureFieldTheoryPrinciplesandApplicationsJOSEPHIKAPlSIAAN!)CIlARLfSGAll(\IRRII)(,JI''oliR1'11 '"t'lIlE~lh-1PII'II(FINITE-TEMPERATUREFIELDTHEORYPrinciplesandApplicationsThisbookdevelopsthebasicformalismandtheoreticaltechniquesforstudy-ingrelativist
2、icquantumfieldtheoryathightemperatureanddensity.SpecificphysicaltheoriestreatedincludeQED,QCD,electroweaktheory,andeffectivenuclearfieldtheoriesofhadronicandnuclearmatter.Topicsincludefunctionalintegralrepresentationofthepartitionfunction,diagrammaticexpansions,lin-earresp
3、onsetheory,screeningandplasmaoscillations,spontaneoussymmetrybreaking,theGoldstonetheorem,resummationandhardthermalloops,latticegaugetheory,phasetransitions,nucleationtheory,quark–gluonplasma,andcolorsuperconductivity.Applicationstoastrophysicsandcosmologyincludewhited
4、warfandneutronstars,neutrinoemissivity,baryonnumberviolationintheearlyuniverse,andcosmologicalphasetransitions.Applicationstorelativisticnucleus–nucleuscollisionsarealsoincluded.JOSEPHI.KAPUSTAisProfessorofPhysicsattheSchoolofPhysicsandAstron-omy,UniversityofMinnesota,
5、Minneapolis.HereceivedhisPh.D.fromtheUni-versityofCalifornia,Berkeley,in1978andhasbeenafacultymemberattheUniversityofMinnesotasince1982.Hehasauthoredover150articlesinrefereedjournalsandconferenceproceedings.Since1997hehasbeenanassociateeditorforPhysicalReviewC.HeisaFel
6、lowoftheAmericanPhysicalSocietyandoftheAmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofScience.ThefirsteditionofFinite-TemperatureFieldTheorywaspublishedbyCambridgeUniversityPressin1989;apaperbackeditionfollowedin1994.CHARLESGALEisJamesMcGillProfessorattheDepartmentofPhysics,McGi
7、llUniversity,Montreal.HereceivedhisPh.D.fromMcGillUniversityin1986andjoinedthefacultytherein1989.Hehasauthoredover100articlesinrefereedjournalsandconferenceproceedings.Since2005hehasbeentheChairoftheDepartmentofPhysicsatMcGillUniversity.HeisaFellowoftheAmericanPhysical
8、Society.CAMBRIDGEMONOGRAPHSONMATHEMATICALPHYSICSGeneraleditors:P.V.Landshoff,D.R.Nelson,S.WeinbergS.CarlipQuantumGravi
