Methods of QFT in Condensed Matter Physics

TMP-TA4, WiSe-2012/13 - Bibliography

 

Lecturer: Dr. Oleg Yevtushenko,    Tutor: Dennis Schimmel

 

Main reading:

·       A. Altland and B.D. Simons, “Condensed matter field theory” (Cambridge University Press).

·       A.M. Tsvelik, “Quantum field theory in condensed matter physics” (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press).

·       Xiao-Gang Wen, “Quantum field theory of many-body systems” (Oxford University Press).

 

Additional reading:

·       A.A. Abrikosov, L.P. Gorkov, I.E. Dzyaloshinski, “Methods of quantum field theory in statistical physics”.

 

Reading for selected topics:

·       Luttinger Liquid and bosonization

o   T. Giamarchi, “Quantum physics in one dimension”.

o   A.O. Gogolin, A.A. Nersesyan and A.M. Tsvelik, “Bosonization and strongly correlated systems”.

o   D.L. Maslov, “Fundamental aspects of electron correlations and quantum transport in 1d systems”,  arXiv:cond-mat/0506035.

o   J. von Delft, H. Schoeller, “Bosonization for Beginners - Refermionization for Experts”, Annalen Phys. 7 (1998) 225-305.

o   I. Yurkevich, “Bosonisation as the Hubbard-Stratonovich Transformation”, arXiv:cond-mat/0112270.

 

·       SuSy FT for disordered systems, nonlinear σ-model

o   K.B. Efetov, “Supersymmetry in disorder and chaos”.

o   A.D. Mirlin, “Statistics of energy levels and eigenfunctions in disordered and chaotic systems: Supersymmetry approach”, arXiv:cond-mat/0006421.

o   A.D. Mirlin, “Statistics of energy levels and eigenfunctions in disordered systems”, Phys. Rep. 326 (2000) 259.

o   F. Haake, “Quantum signatures of chaos”.

o   V.E. Kravtsov, “Random matrix theory: Wigner-Dyson statistics and beyond [Lecture notes of a course given at SISSA (Trieste, Italy)]”, arXiv:0911.0639.

 

·       FT for nonequilibrium systems

o   A. Kamenev, “Field theory of non-equilibrium systems”.

o   J. Rammer, “Quantum Field Theory of Non-equilibrium States”.

o   A. Kamenev and A. Levchenko, “Keldysh technique and non-linear sigma-model: basic principles and applications”, Advances in Physics 58 (2009), 197.

o   J. Rammer and H. Smith, “Quantum field-theoretical methods in transport theory of metals”, Rev. Mod. Phys. 58, 323–359 (1986).

o   Course of theoretical physics by L.D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, volume 10: “Physical kinetics” / by E. M. Lifshitz and L. P. Pitaevskii.

 

Last update: 11.01.2013