Microscopic Quantum Many-Body Theories and Their Applications: Proceedings of a European Summer School Held at Valencia, Spain, 8–19 September 1997

Raymond F. Bishop (auth.), Jesús Navarro, Artur Polls (eds.)3540644717, 9783540644712

Quantum many-body theories have become an essential tool for all physicists. The field is interdisciplinary, predicting the properties of macroscopic matter based on the fundamental interactions between the elementary constituents. This book presents a systematic and pedagogical approach to the coupled cluster method, correlated basis function theory and Monte Carlo methods. These topics are widely recognized and provide the most powerful and widely applicable theories of all available formulations of QMBT. As the future evolution of QMBT depends to a large measure on establishing links between these different methods, the authors discuss hyprid procedures that can build even further upon the huge strengths and great advantages of each theory.

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Table of contents :
The coupled cluster method….Pages 1-70
Atomic and molecular applications of the coupled cluster method….Pages 71-92
A thermal cluster-cumulant theory….Pages 93-117
Correlated basis function theory for fermion systems….Pages 119-186
Inhomogeneous quantum liquids: Statics, dynamics, and thermodynamics….Pages 187-250
Some applications of correlated basis function theories in finite and infinite nuclear systems….Pages 251-267
Monte carlo methods in quantum many-body theories….Pages 269-336
Monte carlo calculations of nuclei….Pages 337-357
Diffusion Monte Carlo for excited states: Application to liquid helium….Pages 359-379