In writing this book, we have had three sorts of readers in mind:
(i) Stuents who have completed the equivalent of an undergraduate physics major, and have taken one year of a graduate course in quantum mechanics .
(ii) Experimental physicists working in the fields of low-temperature or solidstate physics.
(iii) Theoretical physicists or chemists who have not specialized in manyparticle problems.
Our book is intended both as a text for a graduate course in quantum statistical mechanics or low temperature theory and as a monograph for reference and self-study. The reader may be surprised by its designation as a text for a course on statistical mechanics, since a perusal of the table of contents shows few topics that are presently included in most such courses. In fact, we believe it is time for extension of our teaching of statistical mechanics, to take into account all that we have learned in the past decade. We hope that this book may prove helpful in that regard and that it may also prove useful as a supplementary reference for an advanced course in solid-state physics.
Chapter 1 Neutral Fermi Liquids
Chapter 2 Response and Correalation in Neutral Systems
Chapter 3 Charged Fermi Liquids
Chapter 4 Response and Correlation in Homogeneous
Chapter 5 Microscopic Theories of the Electron Liquid