A lot has happened in the field of condensed matter physics since the original edition of "Green's functions for Solid State Physicists" was published in 1974. Nevertheless, the book has helped introduce several generations of condensed matter physics graduate students to the very powerful ideas of quantum many body theory and some of their ap-plications, particularly those in the physics of itinerant magnetism and superconductivity that have nowadays come to be called "the correlated electron p

PREFACE TO THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS EDITION
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: THE THEORY OF CONDENSED MATTER
CHAPTER 1 LATFICE DYNAMICS IN THE HARMONIC APPROXIMATION
1.1 The ground state energy
1.2 The ground state energy as an integral over coupling constant
1.3 The neutron scattering cross-section
1.4 The Green‘s function and its equation of motioff
1.5 The iteration solution of G
1.6 Summation of the iteration series
1.7 Calculation of the ground state energy and the neutron cross-section in terms of the phonon Green‘s function
CHAPTER 2 LATTICE DYNAMICS AT FINITE TEMPERATURES
2.1 The free energy in the harmonic approximation
2.2 The phonon temperature Green‘s function
2.3 The real-time Green‘s function and neutron scattering at finite temperatures
CHAPTER 3 THE FEYNMAN-DYSON EXPANSION
3.1 Zero-temperature theory: general formalism
3.2 Evaluation of the phonon Green‘s function at T= 0 by Feynman-Dyson perturbation theory
3.3 The Feynman-Dyson expansion at finite temperatures
3.4 Direct evaluation of the free energy by Feynman-Dyson perturbation theory
CHAPTER 4 THE XCATTERING OF FERMIONS BY A LOCALIZED PERTURBATION
4.1 Scattering of a single electron
4.2 Formulationg of the many-electon scattering problem in terms of fermion creation and annihiation oprtors
4.3 Single-electon Green's function
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CHAPTER 5 ELECTONS IN THE PRESENCE OF MANY IMPURITIES-THE THEORY OF ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE IN METAS
CHAPTER 6 THE INTERACTING ELECTRON GAS
CHAPTER 7 THE MAGNETIC INSTABILITY OF THE INTERACTING ELECTORYGAS
CHAPTER 8 INTERACTING ELECTORN IN THE ATOMIC LIMIT
CHAPTER 9 TRANSICNT RESPOSIE OF THE FERMI GAS-THE X-RAY AND KONDO PROBLEMS
CHAPTER 10 SUPERCONDUCTVIIV
CHAPTER 11 STRONG CORRELATED ELECTRON SYSTMS HEAVY FERMIONS THE I-DIMENSIONAL ELECTION GAS
CHAPTER 12 HIGH T SUPERCONDUCTIVTIY
APPENDIX1 SECOND QUANTIZATION FOR FERMIONS AND BOSONS
APPENDIX2 TIME CORRELATION FUNCTIONS AND GREENS FUNCTIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
HISTORICAL NOTE ON GEORCE GREEN
INDEX