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Emphasis is placed on analogies between the various systems rather than on advanced or specialized aspects, with the purpose of illustrating common ideas within different domains of physics.

Starting from a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and classical electromagnetism, the exposition is self-contained and explicitly details all steps of the derivations.

The new edition features a substantially new treatment of nucleon pairing.

Many-Body Problems and Quantum Field Theory: An Introduction

1. Classical Fields and Their Associated Particles.- 2. Fermions and Bosons.- 3. Systems with Variable Particle Number.- 4. Electron Gas.- 5. Fermion Pairing and Superconductivity.- 6. Nucleon Pairing and the Structure of the Nucleus.- 7. The Superfluidity of Liquid Helium.- 8. Quantum Fields.- 9. Perturbative Methods in Field Theory.- 10. Perturbative Methods in Many-Body Problems.