Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter: An Introduction (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) - Hardcover

Book 88 of 106: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics

Shankar, Ramamurti

 
9780521592109: Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter: An Introduction (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521592100 ISBN 13: 9780521592109
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This book provides a review of the application of quantum field theory to condensed matter systems, introducing important techniques in condensed matter theory.

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About the Author

Ramamurti Shankar is the John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics at Yale University, Connecticut, with a research focus in theoretical condensed matter physics. He has held positions at the Aspen Center for Physics, the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also been a Visiting Professor at several universities including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, New Jersey, University of California, Berkeley and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Recipient of both the Harwood Byrnes and Richard Sewell Teaching Prize at Yale University (2005) and the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society (2009), he has also authored several books: Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1994), Basic Training in Mathematics (2008), and Fundamentals of Physics Volume I and Volume II (2014 and 2016).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521592100
ISBN 13 
9780521592109
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
450