Condensed Matter Physics and Exactly Soluble Models Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb

The first part of this book contains E. Lieb's fundamental contributions to the mathematical theory of Condensed Matter Physics. Often considered the founding father of the field, E. Lieb demonstrates his ability to select the most important issues and to formulate them as well-defined mathemat...

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Main Author: Lieb, Elliott H.
Other Authors: Nachtergaele, Bruno (Editor), Solovej, Jan Philip (Editor), Yngvason, Jakob (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Publications of Elliott H. Lieb
  • IX.5 Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric Models
  • IX.6 Relations Between the ‘Percolation’ and ‘Colouring’ Problem and Other Graph-Theoretical Problems Associated with Regular Planar Lattices: Some Exact Results for the ‘Percolation’ Problem
  • IX.7 Analytic Properties of the Free Energy for the “Ice” Models
  • X.1 Two-Dimensional Ising Model as a Soluble Problem of Many Fermions
  • X.2 Solution of the Dimer Problem by the Transfer Matrix Method
  • XI.1 Two Soluble Models of an Antiferromagnetic Chain
  • XII.1 Exact Analysis of an Interacting Bose Gas. I. The General Solution and the Ground State
  • XII.2 Exact Analysis of an Interacting Bose Gas. II. The Excitation Spectrum
  • XIII.1 Delta-Function Fermi Gas with Two-Spin Deviates
  • XIII.2 Absence of Mott Transition in an Exact Solution of the Short-Range, One-Band Model on One Dimension
  • XIV.1 Exact Solution of a Many-Fermion System and Its Associated Boson Field
  • Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb
  • A Survey by the Editors
  • I.1 Violation of the Noncrossing Rule: The Hubbard Hamiltonian for Benzene
  • I.2 Two Theorems on the Hubbard Model
  • I.3 The Hubbard Model: Some Rigorous Results and Open Problems
  • I.4 Flux Phase of the Half-Filled Band
  • II.1 Proof of the Peierls Instability in One Dimension
  • II.2 Stability of the Peierls Instability for Ring Shaped Molecules
  • III.1 A Model for Crystallization: A Variation on the Hubbard Model
  • III.2 Phase Separation due to Quantum Mechanical Correlations
  • IV.1 Theory of Ferromagnetism and the Ordering of Electronic Energy Levels
  • IV.2 Ordering Energy Levels of Interacting Spin Systems
  • IV.3 Magnetic Properties of Some Itinerant-Electron Systems at T > 0
  • V.1 Phase Transitions in Reservoir-Driven Open Systems with Applications to Lasers and Superconductors
  • V.2 Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Matter Interacting with the Quantized Radiation Field
  • V.3 Constructive Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics
  • V.4 The Laser: A Reversible Quantum Dynamical System with Irreversible Classical Macroscopic Motion
  • VI.1 A Proof of Part of Haldane’s Conjecture on Spin Chains
  • VI.2 Rigorous Results on Valence-Bond Ground States in Antiferromagnets
  • VI.3 Valence Bond Ground States in Isotropic Quantum Antiferromagnets
  • VI.4 Ground State Properties of a Fully Frustrated Quantum Spin System
  • VII.1 Exact Ground State Energy of the Strong-Coupling Polaron
  • VIII.1 Simplified Approach to the Ground-State Energy of an Imperfect Bose Gas
  • VIII.2 Bose—Einstein Quantum Phase Transition in an Optical Lattice Model
  • VIII.3 The Quantum-Mechanical Many-Body Problem: The Bose Gas
  • Some of the Early History of Exactly Soluble Models
  • IX.1 Exact Solution of the Problem of the Entropy of Two-Dimensional Ice
  • IX.2 Exact Solution ofthe F Model of an Antiferroelectric
  • IX.3 Exact Solution of the Two-Dimensional Slater KDP Model of a Ferroelectric
  • IX.4 Residual Entropy of Square Ice