This essential offers a compact introduction to the theory of Fermi
liquid for physics students in their main studies. It forms the basis
for an understanding of theoretical solid state physics and is part of
every introductory lecture on this topic. After a brief overview of the
Sommerfeld model of metals, the concept of the quasiparticle is
introduced. Important calculations characterizing a Fermi liquid are
derived in detailed calculations. The essential concludes with an
overview of the microscopic theory of Fermi liquids.
This Springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st
edition essentials, Theorie der Fermiflüssigkeit in Metallen by
Michael Kinza, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of
Springer Nature in 2018. The translation was done with the help of
artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com).
A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so
that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional
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