Excitations in Liquid and Solid Helium

• Introduction ; 1. Dynamic response functions ; 2. Physics of solid helium ; 3. Dynamic structure factor of solid helium ; 4. Self consistent phonon theory ; 5. Neutron studies of solid helium ; 6. Introduction to liquid 4He ; 7. Microscopic picture ; 8. Historical development of ideas ; 9. Observed properties of liquid 4He ; 10. Theory of liquid 4He ; 11. Nature of excitations in liquid 4He ; 12. Excitations in liquid 3He ; 13. Dynamic susceptibility of liquid 3He ; 14. Approximations to the dynamic susceptibility ; 15. Models of S(Q,omega) in liquid 3He ; 16. Mori and kinetic theories of liquid 3He ; 17. The impulse approximation ; 18. Final state contributions ; 19. Intermediate and high momentum transfer ; 20. Recent monographs and conference proceedings ; References ; Appendices A-C

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