دانلود کتاب The Many-Body Problem: Proceedings of the Symposium on the Many-Body Problem Held at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, January 28-29, 1957

In the early part of 1957, a Symposium was held at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the purpose of bringing together workers in the numerous rapidly moving fields of many-particle physics. The timing was, a posteriori, most suitable. The fundamentals of the Brueckner theory had been solidified, and a basic understanding of electron correlations in a plasma was at the point of being achieved, as was that of superconductivity, with its manifold implications for other many-body systems. It was also, as E. Montroll pointed out, the centenary of Statistical Mechanics, and one of the directions of the second century was evident in the emerging numerical data on classical rigid sphere and helium lambda point transitions.
The gestation period of this volume has been very long. A number of rather lengthy connecting sections have therefore been inserted by the Editor with the intention of bringing the discussion somewhat forward in time. These relate in the main to general methodology, with attendant advantages and disadvantages, notable among the latter being the frequent yet always unexpected difficulties when specific cases are under examination. The extent to which the unallocated material represents an original contribution is, to put it charitably, uncertain, for in a rapidly moving field there is a large body of knowledge of undetermined origin constantly “in the air”. There has at least been an effort to include references through the end of 1958, when the body of the text was completed, as well as a scattering of newer publications. Major parts of Chaps. I and XIII were used in a course in 1958 and should be without significant error; such optimism in the remaining survey chapters is not warranted.