B.G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart- Leipzig, 1996. — 204 p.
This regular series includes the presentation of recent research developments of strong interest as well as comprehensive treatments of important selected topics of physics. One of the aims is to make new results of research available to graduate students and younger scientists, and moreover to all people who like to widen their scope and inform themselves about new developments and
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A larger part of physics and applications of physics and also its application in neighbouring sciences such as chemistry, biology and technology is covered. Examples for typical topics are: Statistical physics, physics of condensed matter, interaction of light with matter, mesoscopic physics, physics of surfaces and interfaces, laser physics, nonlinear processes and selforganization, ultrafast dynamics, chemical and biological physics, quantum measuring devices with ultimately high resolution and sensitivity, and finally applications of physics in interdisciplinary fields.
ContentsPart I: Non-relativistic theoryMany-Body SystemsThe Schrodinger Representation, N Fixed
The Momentum Representation, N Fixed
The Heisenberg Representation, N Fixed
Hartree-Fock Theory
The Occupation Number Representation, N Varying
Field Quantization
Density Matrices and Density OperatorsSingle-Particle Density Matrices
Two-Particle Density Matrices
Density Operators
Expectation Values and Density Matrices
The Exchange and Correlation Hole
The Adiabatic Principle
Coulomb Systems
Thomas-Fermi TheoryThe Thomas-Fermi Functional and Thomas-Fermi Equation
The Thomas-Fermi Atom
The Thomas-Fermi Screening Length
Scaling Rules
Correction Terms
Hohenberg-Kohn TheoryThe Basic Theorem by Hohenberg and Kohn
The Kohn-Shain Equation
The Link to the Hartree-Fock-Slater Approximation
Constrained Search Density Functionals
Ensemble State Density Functionals
Dependence on Particle Number N
Spin Polarization
Legendre TransformationElementary Introduction
Prelude on Topology
Prelude on Lebesgue Integral
Banach Space
Dual Space
Conjugate Functionals
The Functional Derivative
Lagrange Multipliers
Density Functional Theory by LiebLieb's Density Functional
Resume so far
Dependence on Particle Number N
The Kohn-Sham Equation
Approximative VariantsThe Homogeneous Electron Liquid
The Local Density Approximation
Generations of Kohn-Sham type equations
The Self-Interaction Correction
Part II: Relativistic theoryA Brief Introduction to Quantum ElectrodynamicsClassical Electrodynamics
Lorentz Covariance
Lagrange Formalism Relativistic Kinematics
Relativtstic Mechanics
The Principles of Relativistic Quantum Theory
The Dirac Field
Current Density Functional TheoryQED Groundstate in a Static External Field
Current Density Functionals and Kohn-Sham-Dirac Equation
The Gordon Decomposition and Spin Density
Approximative Variants The Variational Solution of the Kohn-Sham-Dirac Equation
Bibliography
Index