Modern Many-Particle Physics: Atomic Gases, Nanostructures and Quantum Liquids

This book is devoted to the description of Bosonic and Fermionic systems: metallic clusters; quantum dots, wires, rings and molecules; trapped Fermi and Bose atoms; liquid drops of Helium; electron gas in different dimensions and geometries with and without magnetic fields.

Extensively updated with 200 extra pages, the new edition of this successful book includes the field's cutting-edge areas: spin-orbit coupling in heterostructures and spintronics; the conductivity problem: conductivity of quantum wires, magnetoconductivity of nanostructures, spin-Hall conductivity; atomic Fermi gases in traps; non-collinear local spin density approximation calculations; and Brueckner Hartree Fock in finite size systems.

Contents:

• The Independent-Particle Model;
• The Hartree Fock Theory;
• The Brueckner Hartree Fock Theory;
• The Density Functional Theory;
• The Confined 2D Electron Gas in a Magnetic Field;
• Spin Orbit Coupling in the Confined 2D Electron Gas;
• Monte Carlo Methods;
• The Linear Response Function Theory;
• The Linear Response Function in Different Models;
• Dynamic Correlations and Response Function;
• The Hydrodynamic and Elastic Models.