Microscopic Quantum Many-Body Theories and Their Applications

• The coupled cluster method.- Atomic and molecular applications of the coupled cluster method.- A thermal cluster-cumulant theory.- Correlated basis function theory for fermion systems.- Inhomogeneous quantum liquids: Statics, dynamics, and thermodynamics.- Some applications of correlated basis function theories in finite and infinite nuclear systems.- Monte carlo methods in quantum many-body theories.- Monte carlo calculations of nuclei.- Diffusion Monte Carlo for excited states: Application to liquid helium.

"This book's aim is to provide training in the main subjects of quantum many-body theories, in order to understand and predict the properties of macroscopic matter arising from the interactions between its elementary constituents, with an interdisciplinary perspective, and from the development of fundamental theoretical techniques to practical applications. [...] This book will be valuable for graduate students and researchers interested in the study of quantum many-body systems in particle, nuclear, molecular, atomic or condensed matter physics, or in quantum optics and quantum field theory." (Mathematical Reviews 2001f)