E. Economou – Greens Functions in Quantum Physics (Third edition)

Автор: E. Economou
Название книги: Greens Functions in Quantum Physics
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Физика
Страницы: 474
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

In this third edition the book has been expanded in three directions:
1. Problems have been added at the end of each chapter (40% of which
are solved in the last section of the book) together with suggestions for
further reading. Furthermore, the number of appendices (marked with a
grey stripe) has been substantially enlarged in order to make the book
more self-sufficient. These additions, together with many clarifications in
the text, render the book more suitable as a companion in a course on
Green’s functions and their applications.
2. The impressive developments of the 1980s and 1990s in mesoscopic physics,
and in particular in transport properties, found their way – to a certain
extent – in the new Chaps. 8 and 9 (which also contain some of the
material of the old Chap. 7). This is a natural expansion, since Green’s
functions have played an important role as a theoretical tool in this new
field of physics, a role that continues in nanoregime research (see, e.g.,
recent publications dealing with carbon nanotubes). Thus, the powerful
and unifying formalism of Green’s functions finds applications not only
in standard physics subjects such as perturbation and scattering theory,
bound-state formation, etc., but also at the forefront of current and, most
likely, future developments.
3. Over the last 15 years or so Green’s functions have found applications not
only in condensed matter electronic motion but in classical wave propagation
in both periodic and random media; photonic and phononic crystals
are the outcomes of this line of research whose underlying basic theoretical
principles are summarized in Sect. 7.2.4.
I would like to thank Ms.Mina Papadakis and Dr. Stamatis Stamatiadis whose
help was invaluable during the writing and typesetting of this drastically revised
third edition of my book.