Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories: Proceedings of the Second International Conference Held at Oaxtepec, Mexico, January 12–17, 1981 (Lecture Notes in Physics (142))

Mean-field approximations to the many-body S-matrix....Pages 1-7 Quantum mean-field theory of collective dynamics and tunneling....Pages 8-16 Modern theories of irreversible phenomena and entropy; Some applications to nuclear physics....Pages 17-25 Non trivial Hartree-Fock studies in the thermodynamic limit....Pages 26-34 Nuclear forces and nuclear matter including pions and isobars....Pages 35-41 Recent developments in the bonn potential and its application in nuclear matter....Pages 42-50 Search for basic properties of the nucleon-nucleon interaction....Pages 51-59 Relativistic quantum field approach to nuclear matter and nuclei....Pages 60-68 Path integrals, boson expansions and mean field approximations....Pages 69-75 Applications of generalized holstein-primakoff transformations to problems of nuclear collective motion....Pages 76-86 Theory of metal surfaces: Variational calculation using a correlated wave function....Pages 87-94 Many-body effects in the optical properties of quasi-two dimensional systems....Pages 95-102 Non-local effects in the electromagnetic properties of interfaces....Pages 103-107 Calculation of the coefficients of the nuclear mass formula....Pages 108-110 Coupled clusters and coulomb correlations....Pages 111-120 Calculation of gaps of superconductors by Coupled Cluster Methods (CCM)....Pages 121-128 Correlated Bcs theory....Pages 129-134 Microscopic Parameters for Superconductivity....Pages 135-144 Phonons in superconducting Pd-H(D) alloys using the coherent potential approximation with off-diagonal disorder....Pages 145-153 Recent progress in the understanding of strongly coupled coulomb systems....Pages 154-163 The perturbation theory approach to the ground state energy in an infinite fermion system....Pages 164-168 Brueckner-bethe calculations of nuclear matter....Pages 169-176 Coupled Cluster Description of Relativistic Many Body Systems....Pages 177-185 Variational matrix pade approximants applied to few body problems....Pages 186-192 Nuclear matter and nuclear hamiltonian....Pages 193-201 Excitations and transport in quantum liquids....Pages 202-219 Quasiparticle properties in nuclear matter....Pages 220-227 New approaches to the study of collective excitations in strongly-interacting fermi systems....Pages 228-234 Impurity quasiparticle as a weak inhomogeneity....Pages 235-244 Effective free energy for nonlinear dynamics....Pages 245-251 Green's function monte carlo and the many-fermion problem....Pages 252-261 The stochastic solution of the many-body Schroedinger equation for fermions....Pages 262-269 Recent developments and future prospects in CBF theory....Pages 270-279 Optimal Jastrow correlations for Fermi liquids....Pages 280-286 CBF perturbation corrections to the Jastrow ground-state of the electron gas....Pages 287-294 Correlations in bose fluids....Pages 295-302 Model hamiltonian for superfluidity....Pages 303-308 Consequences of defects on lattice vibrations semiclassical theory....Pages 309-317 Spin-alignment in condensed atomic hydrogen....Pages 318-327 The born-green-yvon theory of fermion quantum fluids....Pages 328-335 Statistical theories of large atoms and molecules....Pages 336-343 Electrons, phonons and the optical properties of small metallic particles....Pages 344-349 Atomic exchange energy as a density functional....Pages 350-354 Liouvillian propagator technique for perturbed wave functions, level shifts and broadenings of composite particles in a many-body medium....Pages 355-363 Density functionals from models of the electronic charge density....Pages 364-372 Effective hamiltonian theory: Recent formal results and non-nuclear applications....Pages 373-381 Applications of moment methods to finite nuclei....Pages 382-389 Variational calculations on light nuclei....Pages 390-397 Study of light nuclei from 4 He to 40 Ca with the faht cluster expansion....Pages 398-406 Three-body forces in nuclei....Pages 407-415 Role of isobars in nuclear independent particle motion....Pages 416-425 Hyperons in nuclear matter — an impurity problem....Pages 426-432 Pion condensation, equation of state of dense matter and neutron stars....Pages 433-443 Structure of baryonic system with pion condensation and its implication in neutron star problems....Pages 444-452 Nucleon superfluidity under pion condensation....Pages 453-461 Spin-isospin order: critical density in nuclear matter and a possible realization in nuclei....Pages 462-469 Group theory and collective degrees of freedom in nuclear many body systems....Pages 470-473 List of Papers not contained in the Proceedings....Pages 474-479