Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference

ISBN-13: 9789810248888 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 520 str.

Raymond F. Bishop; Tobias Brandes; Klaus A. Gernoth

Opis

Quantum many-body theory as a discipline in its own right dates largely from the 1950s. It has developed since then to its current position as one of the cornerstones of modern theoretical physics. The field's most powerful techniques are truly universal. They are constantly expanding to find new fields of application, while advances continue to be made in the more traditional areas. To commemorate the impending 80th birthdays of its two co-inventors, Fritz Coester and Hermann Kummel, one such technique, namely the coupled cluster method, was especially highlighted at the 11th in the series of International Conferences on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories, from which this volume is taken. The history of the coupled cluster method as told here mirrors in many ways both the development of the entire discipline of microscopic quantum many-body theory and the history of the series of conferences.