Condensed Matter Field Theory

Theoreticalcondensedmatterphysicsdrawsheavilyandincreasinglyonthelanguageofquantumfieldtheory．ThisprimeriSaimedatelevatinggraduatestudentsofcondensedmatterphysicstoalevelwheretheycanengageinindependentresearch．Itemphasizesthedevelopmentofmodemmethodsofclassicalandquantumfieldtheorywithapplicationsofinterestinbothexperimentalandtheoreticalcondensedmatterphysics．Topicscovered1ncludesecondquantization，pathandfunctionalfieldintegration，mean—fieldtheoryandcollectivephenomena，therenormalizationgroup，andtopology．Conceptualaspectsandformalmethodologyareemphasizedanddeveloped，butthediscussionisrootedfirmlyinpracticalexperimentalapplication．Aswellasroutineexercises．thetextincludesextendedandchallengingproblems，withfullyworkedsolutions，designedtoprovideabridgebetweenformalmanipulationsandresearch—orientedthinkin9．Thisbookwillcomplementgraduate—levelcoursesontheoreticalquantumcondensedmatterphysics．