Table of Contents

1: First and second quantization
2: The electron gas
3: Phonons: coupling to electrons
4: Mean field theory
5: Time evolution pictures
6: Linear response theory
7: Transport in mesoscopic systems
8: Green's functions
9: Equation of motion theory
10: Transport in interacting mesoscopic systems
11: Imaginary time Green's functions
12: Feynman diagrams and external potentials
13: Feynman diagrams and pair interactions
14: The interacting electron gas
15: Fermi liquid theory
16: Impurity scattering and conductivity
17: Green's functions and phonons
18: Superconductivity
19: 1D electron gases and Luttinger liquids
A: Fourier transformations
B: Exercises
C: Index

About the Author

Henrik Bruus, MIC - Dept of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark Karsten Flensberg, Oersted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark

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