Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Review of quantum statistical mechanics
- 2 Functional integral representation of the partition function
- 3 Interactions and diagrammatic techniques
- 4 Renormalization
- 5 Quantum electrodynamics
- 6 Linear response theory
- 7 Spontaneous symmetry breaking and restoration
- 8 Quantum chromodynamics
- 9 Resummation and hard thermal loops
- 10 Lattice gauge theory
- 11 Dense nuclear matter
- 12 Hot hadronic matter
- 13 Nucleation theory
- 14 Heavy ion collisions
- 15 Weak interactions
- 16 Astrophysics and cosmology
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Review of quantum statistical mechanics
- 2 Functional integral representation of the partition function
- 3 Interactions and diagrammatic techniques
- 4 Renormalization
- 5 Quantum electrodynamics
- 6 Linear response theory
- 7 Spontaneous symmetry breaking and restoration
- 8 Quantum chromodynamics
- 9 Resummation and hard thermal loops
- 10 Lattice gauge theory
- 11 Dense nuclear matter
- 12 Hot hadronic matter
- 13 Nucleation theory
- 14 Heavy ion collisions
- 15 Weak interactions
- 16 Astrophysics and cosmology
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Index
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