The Quantum Mechanics of Many-body Systems

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Academic Press, 1972 - Science - 242 pages

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SOLUBLE MODELS
7
LOWLYING EXCITED STATES
13
VARIATIONAL METHODS
26
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David James Thouless was born in Bearsden, Scotland on September 21, 1934. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. After graduating from Cornell in 1958, he spent a year at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. He then joined the department of mathematical physics at the University of Birmingham, where he remained until 1978. He taught at Yale University for two years before joining the facility at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he remained until 2014. He then returned to the University of Cambridge. His research included using mathematics to explain strange states of matter like superconductivity and superfluidity. He received the Wolf Prize in physics, the Dirac Medal, and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics that he shared with J. Michael Kosterlitz and F. Duncan M. Haldane. Thouless died on April 6, 2019 at the age of 84.

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