290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

The series of volumes, Contemporary Concepts in Physics, is addressed to the professional physicist and to the serious graduate student of physics. The subject of many-body systems constitutes a central chapter in the study of quantum mechanics, with applications ranging from elementary particle and condensed matter physics to the behaviour of compact stellar objects. Quantal size effects is one... Read more
1 Introduction Part 1 ZERO TEMPERATURE 2 Giant Vibrations 3 Random Phase Approximation 4 Beyond Mean Field Part 2 FINITE TEMPERATURE 5 Measurement of Giant Resonances 7 Concepts of Statistical Physics 8 Linear Response 9 Collision 10 Dipole Oscillations: Theory 11 Rotational Motion

Biography

P. F. Bortignon; A. Bracco Università di Milano and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy R. A. Broglia Università di Milano and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark