Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Second quantization; 2. Getting familiar with second quantization: model Hamiltonians; 3. Time-dependent problems and equations of motion; 4. The contour idea; 5. Many-particle Green's functions; 6. One-particle Green's function; 7. Mean field approximations; 8. Conserving approximations: two-particle Green's function; 9. Conserving approximations: self-energy; 10. MBPT for the Green's function; 11. MBPT and variational principles for the grand potential; 12. MBPT for the two-particle Green's function; 13. Applications of MBPT to equilibrium problems; 14. Linear response theory: preliminaries; 15. Linear response theory: many-body formulation; 16. Applications of MBPT to nonequilibrium problems; Appendices; Index.

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A pedagogical introduction to nonequilibrium theory, time-dependent phenomena and excited state properties, for graduate students and researchers.

About the Author

Gianluca Stefanucci is Researcher at the Physics Department of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. His current research interests are in quantum transport through nanostructures and nonequilibrium open systems. Robert van Leeuwen is Professor of Physics at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. His main areas of research are time-dependent quantum systems, many-body theory and quantum transport through nanostructures.