Title Many-Body Boson Systems : Half a Century Later Author(s) Verbeure, Andr?? F Publication London, Springer London, 2011. Description X, 190 p : online resource Abstract Note Many-body Boson Systems: Half a Century Later offers a modern way of dealing with the problems of equilibrium states of Bose systems. Starting with the variation principle of statistical mechanics and the energy-entropy balance principle as equilibrium criteria, results for general boson systems and models are explicitly derived using simple functional analytic calculus. Bridging the gap between idea???s of general theoretical physics and the phenomenological research in the field of Bose systems, this book provides an insight into the fascinating quantum world of bosons. Key topics include the occurrence of BEC and its intimate structural relation with the phenomena of spontaneous symmetry breaking and off-diagonal long range order; the condensate equation; the issue concerning the choice of boundary conditions; solvable versus non-solvable boson models; the set of quasi-free boson states; the role of dissipative perturbations; and the surprising but general relation between general quantum fluctuations and boson systems. Only some knowledge of quantum mechanics and undergraduate algebra and analysis is assumed. This textbook brings students and researchers smoothly from general concepts to vivid applications ISBN,Price 9780857291097 Keyword(s) 1. Condensed materials 2. EBOOK 3. EBOOK - SPRINGER 4. FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS 5. Mathematical Methods in Physics 6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 7. OPERATOR THEORY 8. Phase transformations (Statistical physics) 9. PHYSICS 10. Quantum Gases and Condensates 11. QUANTUM PHYSICS 12. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I06898     On Shelf