《量子多体理论:从声子的起源到光子和电子的起源》系统地介绍了新的主题和有关的新概念，还系统地介绍了凝聚态理论中现代场论和路径积分方法。通过一些简单的系统，《量子多体理论:从声子的起源到光子和电子的起源》涵盖了相当厂泛的物理概念和各种计算方法，旨在帮助学生尽快掌握现代凝聚态理论的前沿知识。《量子多体理论:从声子的起源到光子和电子的起源》还展现了作者的许多新思想。《量子多体理论:从声子的起源到光子和电子的起源》每一章节后面都有少量习题，有助于读者理解和掌握《量子多体理论》内容。

This book presents articles written by leading experts surveying several major subfields in Condensed Matter Physics and related sciences. The articles are based on invited talks presented at a recent conference honoring Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson of Princeton University, who coined the phrase "More is different" while formulating his contention that all fields of physics, indeed all of science, involve equally fundamental insights. The articles introduce and survey current research in areas that have been close to Anderson's interests. Together, they illustrate both the deep impact that Anderson has had in this multifaceted field during the past half century and the progress spawned by his insights. The contributors cover numerous topics under the umbrellas of superconductivity, superfluidity, magnetism, electron localization, strongly interacting electronic systems, heavy fermions, and disorder and frustration in glass and spin-glass systems. They also describe interdisciplinary areas such as the science of olfaction and color vision, the screening of macroions in electrolytes, scaling and renormalization in cosmology, forest fires and the spread of measles, and the investigation of "NP-complete" problems in computer science. </p>
The articles are authored by Philip W. Anderson, Per Bak and Kan Chen, G. Baskaran, Juan Carlos Campuzano, Paul Chaikin, John Hopfield, Bernhard Keimer, Scott Kirkpatrick and Bart Selman, Gabriel Kotliar, Patrick Lee, Yoshiteru Maeno, Marc Mezard, Douglas Osheroff et al., H. R. Ott, L. Pietronero et al., T. V. Ramakrishnan, A. Ramirez, Myriam Sarachik, T. Senthil and Matthew P. A. Fisher, B. I. Shklovskii et al., and F. Steglich et al.</p>

本书是诺贝尔物理学奖获得者，凝聚态物理界的泰斗P.W.Anderson的经典著作，是固体理论方面最权威的参考书之一，作者在这个领域内作出过非常突出的贡献。书中对固体物理学中的许多基本概念作了精辟的分析，清晰的表达出各种基本原理，并使之具体化，引导读者进入这一极具挑战的领域，体现出大师著作的独特风格！
目次：导论；单电子理论；元激发。
读者对象：本书适合凝聚态物理专业的研究生，教师及相关专业研究人员。