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Quantum many-body systems are a central feature of condensed matter physics, relevant to important, modern research areas such as ultrafast light-matter interactions and quantum information. This book offers detailed coverage of the contour Green's function formalism – an approach that can be successfully applied to solve the quantum many-body and time-dependent problems present within such systems. Divided into three parts, the text provides a structured overview of the relevant theoretical and practical tools, with specific focus on the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. Part I introduces the mathematical frameworks that make use of Green's functions in normal phase states. Part II covers fermionic superfluid phases with discussion of topics such as the BCS-BEC crossover and superconducting systems. Part III deals with the application of the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism to various topics of experimental interest. Graduate students and researchers will benefit from the book's comprehensive treatment of the subject matter and its novel arrangement of topics.

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Giancarlo Calvenese Strinati is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Camerino and his research is focused on condensed matter physics and ultra-cold atoms. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1977 with support from the Fulbright Program, before spending a year as a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. He joined the faculty of the Sapienza University of Rome – first as an Assistant Professor and then as an Associate Professor – and later worked at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2010.

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