Recent progress in many-body theories : proceedings of the 12th International Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 23 - 27 August 2004

Quantum many-body theory has greatly expanded its scope and depth over the past few years, treating more deeply long-standing issues like phase transitions and strongly-correlated systems, and simultaneously expanding into new areas such as cold atom physics and quantum information. This collection of contributions highlights recent advances in all these areas by leaders in their respective fields. Also included are some historic perspectives by L P Gor'kov and S T Belyaev, Feenberg Medal Recipients at this conference, and Nobel Laureate P W Anderson gives his unique outlook on the future of physics.The volume covers the key topics in many-body theory, tied together through advances in theoretical tools and computational techniques, and a unifying theme of fundamental approaches to quantum many-body physics. Quantum many-body theory has expanded its scope, treating issues like phase transitions and strongly-correlated systems, and expanding into areas such as cold atom physics and quantum information. Showing advances in these areas, this book covers key topics in many-body theory, along with advances in theoretical tools and computational techniques.