Methods of QFT in Condensed Matter Physics

TMP-TA4, WiSe-2013/14 - 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.

· 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.

· Theory of disordered systems

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

o E. Akkermans and G. Montambaux, “Mesoscopic physics of electrons and photons”.

Last update: 22.01.2014