Bosonization and Strongly Correlated Systems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521617192)

This volume provides a detailed account of bosonization. This important technique represents one of the most powerful nonperturbative approaches to many-body systems currently available. The first part of the book examines the technical aspects of bosonization. Topics include one-dimensional fermions, the Gaussian model, the structure of Hilbert space in conformal theories, Bose-Einstein condensation in two dimensions, non-Abelian bosonization, and the Ising and WZNW models. The second part presents applications of the bosonization technique to realistic models including the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, spin liquids in one dimension and the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with alternating exchange. The third part addresses the problems of quantum impurities. Chapters cover potential scattering, the X-ray edge problem, impurities in Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids and the multi-channel Kondo problem. This book will be an excellent reference for researchers and graduate students working in theoretical physics, condensed matter physics and field theory.

Author: Alexander O. Gogolin,Alexander A. Nersesyan,Alexei M. Tsvelik
ISBN-10: 0521617197
ISBN-13: 9780521617192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2004
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.91d