Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories : Proceedings of the 11th International Conference, Manchester, U. K. , 8-13 July 2001

by Bishop, R. F.; Brandes, Tobias; Gernoth, Klaus A.; Walet, Niels R.; Xian, Yang

• ISBN13: 9789810248888
• ISBN10: 9810248881
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Quantum many-body theory as a discipline in its own right dates largely from the 1950's. It has developed since then to its current position as one of the cornerstones of modern theoretical physics. The field remains vibrant and active, vigorous and exciting. Its most powerful techniques are truly universal. They are constantly expanding to find new fields of application, while advances continue to be made in the more traditional areas.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Series Editorial Board and Other Committees	xvii
Foreword by The Editors	xix
Feenberg Memorial Medal Presentation
Philippe Nozieres: Feenberg Medalist 2001: Microscopic and Phenomenological Foundations of The Theory of Quantum Many-Body Systems	3	(6)
A. J. Leggett
E. Krotscheck
J. W. Negele
Philippe Nozieres Replies	9	(4)
Strongly Correlated Condensed Matter and Low-Dimensional Systems
Fermiology in Correlated Electron Systems	13	(10)
Hideo Aoki
Exchange Frequencies in The 2d Wigner Crystal	23	(9)
B. Bernu
L. Candido
D. M. Ceperley
P. Gianinetti
Broken Symmetry and Josephson-like Tunnelling in Quantum Hall Bilayers	32	(10)
S. M. Girvin
Low Temperature Properties of 2D Correlated Electrons in Weakly Disordered Materials	42	(10)
D. Neilson
D. J. W. Geldart
Kondo Alloys and The Mott Metal-Insulator Transition: An Old Problem Revisited	52	(8)
P. Nozieres
Andreev Reflection and Subgap Transport Due to Electron-Magnon Interactions in Ferromagnet-Superconductor Junctions	60	(4)
G. Tkachov
E. McCann
V. I. Fal'ko
Skyrmions in Quantum Hall Systems	64	(7)
N. R. Walet
O. Schwindt
T. Weidig
Quantum Magnetism
Linked Cluster Series Expansions for Two-Particle States in Quantum Lattice Models	71	(9)
W. Zheng
C. J. Hamer
R. R. P. Singh
S. Trebst
H. Monien
Quantum Frustrated Magnets: From Theory to Experiments	80	(10)
F. Mila
Quantum Phases in Two-Dimensional Frustrated Spin-1/2 Antiferromagnets	90	(9)
P. Sindzingre
C. Lhuillier
J.-B. Fouet
Transport Anomalies and Marginal Fermi-Liquid Effects at a Quantum Critical Point	99	(4)
D. Belitz
S. L. Sessions
T. R. Kirkpatrick
M. T. Mercaldo
R. Narayanan
T. Vojta
Magnetic Excitation of Orthogonal Dimer Heisenberg Spin System for SrCu2(BO3)2	103	(4)
S. Miyahara
K. Totsuka
K. Ueda
Rotational Band Structure of Low-Lying Excitations in Small Heisenberg Systems	107	(4)
J. Schnack
M. Luban
R. Modler
Quantum Disorder of an Antiferromagnetic Spin Model on The Sierpinski gasket	111	(6)
A. Voigt
J. Richter
Phase Transitions
Finite Temperature Dynamics Near Quantum Phase Transitions	117	(15)
S. Sachdev
Superconductivity and Quantum Phase Transitions in Weak Itinerant Ferromagnets	132	(10)
T. R. Kirkpatrick
T. Vojta
D. Belitz
R. Narayanan
Thermal Phases in Finite Quantum Systems	142	(8)
D. J. Dean
The Mott Transition and f Electron Physics	150	(11)
G. Kotliar
S. Y. Savrasov
Nuclear and Subnuclear Many-Body Problems
Recent Developments in The Nuclear Many-Body Problem	161	(15)
R. J. Furnstahl
The Bethe-Brueckner-Goldstone Theory of The Nuclear Equation of State and Neutron Stars	176	(10)
M. Baldo
G. F. Burgio
Scaling in Many-Body Systems and Proton Structure Function	186	(11)
O. Benhar
Saturation Properties of Nuclear Matter and Correlated Nucleons	197	(10)
W. H. Dickhoff
E. P. Roth
Covariant Effective Field Theory for Bulk Properties of Nuclei	207	(10)
B. D. Serot
Relativistic Mean Field Theory for Unstable Nuclei and Supernovae	217	(9)
H. Toki
Colour Superconductivity in Finite Systems	226	(4)
P. Amore
M. C. Birse
J. A. McGovern
N. R. Walet
Nuclear Many-Body Theory at Finite Temperature Applied to a Protoneutron Star	230	(4)
G. F. Marranghello
C. A. Z. Vasconcellos
M. Dillig
On The Two-Body Momentum Distribution in Finite Nuclei	234	(4)
P. Papakonstantinou
E. Mavrommatis
T. S. Kosmas
TICC2 State-Dependent Correlations in Nuclei	238	(4)
I. Moliner
EOS of Nuclear Matter Within a Generalised NJL Model	242	(4)
C. da Providencia
J. da Providencia
S. A. Moszkowski
Spectroscopy of High-K Bands in The A = 180 Region Using a Quantum Many-Body Method	246	(4)
A. K. Rath
P. M. Walker
C. R. Praharaj
Effective Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction and Fermi Liquid Theory	250	(7)
A. Schwenk
G. E. Brown
B. Friman
Quantum Fluids, Superfluids and Superconductivity
Quantum Fluid Mixtures in Different Phases	257	(16)
M. Saarela
T. Taipaleenmaki
Bose-Einstein Condensation and Excitations in Solid 4He with Vacancies	273	(10)
D. E. Galli
L. Reatto
Excitations in Confined Fermi Fluids	283	(10)
E. S. Hernandez
Structure and Spectroscopy of Doped Helium Clusters Using Quantum Monte Carlo Techniques	293	(10)
A. Viel
K. B. Whaley
Renormalisation Group Analysis of The Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model: Spin Correlations and d-Wave Superconductivity	303	(10)
W. Metzner
Exciton-Phonon Packets with Bose-Einstein Condensate	313	(6)
D. Roubtsov
Y. Lepine
Coupled Cluster Methods
A Tribute to Hermann Kummel on his 80th Birthday	319	(15)
R. F. Bishop
A Biography of the Coupled Cluster Method	334	(15)
H. G. Kummel
From Light Nuclei to Nuclear Matter --- The Role of Relativity?	349	(6)
F. Coester
Intermediate Hamiltonian Fock-Space Coupled Cluster Method and Applications	355	(10)
A. Landau
E. Eliav
U. Kaldor
Coupled Cluster Treatments of Quantum Magnets: Two Examples	365	(18)
S. E. Kruger
D. J. J. Farnell
J. Richter
A Finite-Temperature Generalisation of The Coupled Cluster Method: A Non-Perturbative Access to Grand Partition Functions	383	(10)
S. H. Mandal
R. Ghosh
G. Sanyal
D. Mukherjee
Coupled-Cluster Approach to Correlation in Small Molecules: Energy vs. Amplitude Corrected Methods	393	(12)
J. Paldus
X. Li
Coupled Cluster Calculations of The Schwinger Model in Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge Theory	405	(6)
R. McDonald
N. R. Walet
New Frontiers and Methods
Control of Quantum Systems	411	(14)
J. W. Clark
D. G. Lucarelli
T.-J. Tarn
Hidden Unity in the Quantum Description of Matter	425	(10)
G. Ortiz
C. D. Batista
The Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo Method: Designing Trial Wave Functions for NiO	435	(10)
R. J. Needs
M. D. Towler
Cluster Algorithm Solution of Sign and Complex Action Problems	445	(12)
U.-J. Wiese
Isothermal Quantum Dynamics: Nose-Hoover Dynamics for Coherent States	457	(4)
D. Mentrup
J. Schnack
Density-Matrix Renormalisation Group for Dynamic Correlation Functions	461	(4)
E. Jeckelmann
A Fourth Order Real-Space Algorithm for Solving Local Schrodinger Equations	465	(6)
E. Krotscheck
J. Auer
S. A. Chin
Optoelectronics and Transport
Dissipation in Open Two-Level Systems: Perturbation Theory and Polaron Transformation	471	(4)
T. Brandes
T. Vorrath
Nonlinear Electron Transport Through Double Quantum Dots Coupled to Confined Phonons	475	(4)
S. Debald
T. Brandes
B. Kramer
Coupled Cluster Techniques and The Rabi Hamiltonian	479	(4)
C. Emary
Transport in Quantum Wires with Impurities at Finite Temperature	483	(4)
T. Kleimann
M. Sassetti
B. Kramer
Dynamics of a Large-Spin-Boson System in The Strong Coupling Regime	487	(4)
T. Vorrath
T. Brandes
B. Kramer
Author Index	491	(2)
Subject index	493