- Student-friendly textbook that incorporates recent developments
- Unified and self-contained presentation employing Green's function perturbation theory
- Presentation suitable for finite and infinite systems.
- Extensive treatment of boson systems
- Comparisons with experimental data wherever possible

This comprehensive textbook on the quantum mechanics of identical particles includes a wealth of valuable experimental data, in particular recent results from direct knockout reactions directly related to the single-particle propagator in many-body theory. The comparison with data is incorporated from the start, making the abstract concept of propagators vivid and accessible. Results of numerical calculations using propagators or Green's functions are also presented. The material has been thoroughly tested in the classroom and the introductory chapters provide a seamless connection...