Topics and Methods in Condensed Matter Theory : From Basic Quantum Mechanics to the Frontiers of Research

This book provides material for course in theoretical physics intended for undergraduate and graduate students specializing in condensed matter, including experimentalists who want a good theoretical background; the advanced part should be of interest to research workers too.

A good first course in quantum mechanics is assumed.

Other related topics discussed in the book are atomic physics, relativistic quantum mechanics, elementary QED, electron spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, and various aspects of the many-body problem.

Methods such as group representation theory, Green[unk]s functions, the Keldysh formalism and recursion techniques were also imparted.

This book arose naturally from teaching activity, offering readable and mathematical treatments are explained in enough detail to be followed easily.

Proofs of all the relevant theorems are provided, but the main emphasis is always on the physical meaning or applicability of the results.

Many examples are provided for illustration but also serve as worked problems.