150 Years of Quantum Many-Body Theory : A Festschrift in Honour of the 65th Birthdays of John W. Clark, Alpo J. Kallio, Manfred L. Rising, Sergio Rosati: UMIST, Manchester, UK, July 10-14, 2000

by Bishop, R. F.; Gernoth, Klaus A.; Walet, Niels R.

• ISBN13: 9789810247300
• ISBN10: 9810247303
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Collects more than 30 invited contributions from eminent scientists, chosen both from among the participants at the conference and from colleagues who were unable to attend but wished to contribute in honoring John W. Clark, Alpo Kallio, Manfred Ristig, and Sergio Rosati.

Table of Contents

Series Editorial Board and Other Committees	ix
Foreword by the Editors	xi
Scientific CVs of the Honorees	1	(40)
John Walter Clark	3	(16)
Alpo J. Kallio	19	(6)
Manfred Ristig	25	(8)
Sergio Rosati	33	(8)
A Historical Perspective	41	(14)
The Music of the QMBT Quartet	43	(12)
H. G. Kummel
Formal Aspects of Many-Body Theory	55	(62)
Diagrams are Theoretical Physicist's Best Friends	57	(8)
J. Arponen
Fourth Order Algorithms for Solving Diverse Many-Body Problems	65	(14)
Siu A. Chin
Relativistic Quantum Dynamics of Many-Body Systems	79	(10)
F. Coester
W. N. Polyzou
Elastic N-body to N-body Scattering in the Hyperspherical Representation	89	(8)
R. Ya. Kezerashvili
A Generic Way to Look at Many-Body Theory	97	(10)
E. Krotscheck
A Variational Coupled-Cluster Theory	107	(10)
Y. Xian
Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics	117	(104)
The Nuclear Equation of State and Neutron Star Structure	119	(8)
M. Baldo
To Dress or Not to Dress...	127	(8)
W. H. Dickhoff
Fermi Hypernetted Chain Equations and Nuclear Many-Body Physics	135	(8)
A. Fabrocini
Nuclear Matter with the Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo Method	143	(10)
S. Fantoni
A. Sarsa
K. E. Schmidt
Three-Body Force Effects in Few-Nucleon Systems	153	(8)
A. Kievsky
Correlations in Nuclear Matter with Two-Time Green's Functions	161	(8)
H. S. Kohler
K. Morawetz
Weak Proton Capture on 3He and the Solar Neutrino Problem	169	(8)
L. E. Marcucci
Generalized Momentum Distribution of Infinite and Finite Nucleon Systems	177	(12)
E. Mavrommatis
M. Petraki
P. Papakonstantinou
T. S. Kosmas
Ch. Moustakidis
The Translationally Invariant Coupled Cluster Method with Applications to Nuclear Systems	189	(8)
I. Moliner
Mean Field Approach to Quark Matter in the NJL Model	197	(6)
S. A. Moszkowski
C. Providencia
J. da Providencia
Effective Field Theory in Nuclear Many-Body Physics	203	(10)
B. D. Serot
J. D. Walecka
Hyperspherical Methods for A ≥ 4 Systems	213	(8)
M. Viviani
Spin Systems	221	(26)
Ab initio Calculations of the Spin-Half XY Model	223	(8)
D. J. J. Farnell
M. L. Ristig
Quantum Antiferromagnets with Easy-Plane Anisotropy	231	(8)
P. Gianinetti
A. Parola
L. Reatto
Quantum Phase Transitions in Spin Systems	239	(8)
J. Richter
S. E. Kruger
D. J. J. Farnell
R. F. Bishop
Quantum Fluids and Solids; Bose Condensation	247	(46)
Path Integral Monte Carlo Calculations of Symmetry-Breaking in Structural Phase Transitions	249	(8)
K. A. Gernoth
The Description of Strongly Interacting Systems Based on Jastrow Correlations and Configuration Interaction	257	(10)
R. Guardiola
J. Navarro
The Many-Boson System in One-Dimension: Application to 4He	267	(8)
M. D. Miller
E. Krotscheck
The Ground State of Trapped Bosons Beyond the Gross-Pitaevskii Approximation	275	(10)
A. Polls
Pairing of Impurities in Quantum Fluids	285	(8)
M. Saarela
Strongly Correlated Electrons	293	(24)
Spin Polarizations of Quantum Hall States	295	(6)
T. Chakraborty
K. Niemela
P. Pietilainen
Electronic Molecules in Condensed Matter	301	(8)
F. V. Kusmartsev
The Metal-Insulator Transition in 2D and New Phases of Quantum Localisation	309	(8)
D. Neilson
J. S. Thakur
Related Subjects	317	(22)
Information Representation in the Multi-Layer Perceptron	319	(8)
M. J. Barber
Classical and Quantum Lyapunov Exponents in the Phase-Space Tomographic Approach	327	(12)
R. Vilela Mendes
Author Index	339	(2)
Subject Index	341