Feynman Diagram Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics (Paperback)

The media could not be loaded.  Wow, that a great book on field theory condensed matter. The Cambridge univ press have improves a lot with the print and the paper quality and the binding as well. The content is awesome, nice written and user fiendly. Strongly recommended.

This is excellent textbook. Very pedagogical and easy to read. Fantastic thing is that the manual with full-detail solutions is available to all the readers, so this book is perfect for SELF STUDY.Beside physicists, I would strongly recommend it to electrical engineers and materials scientists. It is especially good for nanoelectronics since it has the NEGF chapter.Excellent choice of problems and solutions. In the first chapter, for example, as a review you will learn to explicitly do all those summations/integrals that are so common in solid state physics, and which are so useful generally in QM and functional analysis. More often than not, these sums/integrals are taken as given in textbooks, here you have step-by-step math proofs. The solutions are give in full detail, including all the steps for contour integration where needed.Another example of clear presentation is the section 2.4 Bloch States: in only six pages it sublimes in super clear fashion almost the entire essence of band theory of solids (one particle picture). Also, in through about 4 problems (with full solutions) you will learn all the details of the graphene monolayer bandstructure.Simply, with this book (and the solutions manual) you will learn nuts and bolts of theoretical calculations....down to the last integral or sum. All these details with sums of 1st BZ or with periodic boundary conditions applied to important sums that you might have overviewed in single--particle QM based solid state course....all is here well explained in the book and the solutions manual. After reading this, Ashcroft and Mermin's textbook doesn't look so good any more in the sense of pedagogy. This is really good stuff. Hat off to Prof. Jishi.If he plans another edition (which I think he should), it would be great to see chapter on magnetism/spintronics and topological insulators (at least elementary stuff).Also, the author did Ph.D. in condensed matter at MIT with Mildred Dresselhaus.

An exceptionally clear book. I learnt so much about equilibrium Green's function (Chap 6-10) and Feynman diagrams as applied to condensed matter physics. The first five introductory chapters, especially the third on second quantization and its various representations are highly useful to pursue the material presented later. Almost every result is derived, each step properly explained and a chapter usually ends with a very significant illustrative example. The example is chosen such that a careful reader can easily turn that in to research problem (with additional steps) and perhaps make a significant journal publication. The chapter-end problems provide more practice and solutions to most of them are available on the web. The author would render a great service if he chooses to include a chapter on disordered conductors which relies heavily on digrammatic techniques in a future edition. Overall, this is a key book to learn advanced condensed matter physics and proceed to more terse monographs.