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100 1  Blasone, Massimo.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n2010055971 
245 10 Quantum field theory and its macroscopic manifestations :
       |bBoson condensation, ordered patterns, and topological 
       defects /|cMassimo Blasone & Giuseppe Vitiello, Petr 
       Jizba. 
264  1 London :|bImperial College Press ;|aSingapore ;
       |aHackensack, NJ :|bDistributed by World Scientific,
       |c[2011] 
264  4 |c©2011 
300    1 online resource (xviii, 526 pages) :|billustrations 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  1. The structure of the space of the physical states. 1.1.
       Introduction. 1.2. The space of the states of physical 
       particles. 1.3. The Weyl-Heisenberg algebra and the Fock 
       space. 1.4. Irreducible representations of the canonical 
       commutation relations. 1.5. Unitarily equivalent 
       representations. 1.6. The Stone-von Neumann theorem. 1.7. 
       Unitarily inequivalent representations. 1.8. The 
       deformation of Weyl-Heisenberg algebra. 1.9. The physical 
       particle energy and momentum operator. 1.10. The physical 
       Fock space and the physical fields -- 2. Inequivalent 
       representations of the canonical commutation relations. 
       2.1. Introduction. 2.2. Heisenberg fields, physical fields
       and the dynamical map. 2.3. Examples of inequivalent 
       representations. 2.4. The Haag theorem and non-
       perturbative physics. 2.5. The momentum operator. 2.6. 
       Time evolution and asymptotic limits. 2.7. Inequivalent 
       representations in flavor mixing -- 3. Spontaneous 
       breakdown of symmetry and the Goldstone theorem. 3.1. 
       Introduction. 3.2. Invariance and symmetry. 3.3. 
       Irreducible representations of the symmetry group. 3.4. 
       Symmetry and the vacuum manifold. 3.5. Boson 
       transformation and inequivalent representations. 3.6. 
       Spontaneous symmetry breaking and functional integrals. 
       3.7. The Goldstone theorem. 3.8. Spontaneous symmetry 
       breaking in local gauge theories. 3.9. Finite volume 
       effects. 3.10. Space-time dimensionality -- 4. Dynamical 
       rearrangement of symmetry and macroscopic manifestations 
       of QFT. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Dynamical rearrangement of
       symmetry. 4.3. The boson transformation theorem and the 
       non-homogeneous boson condensation. 4.4. Group contraction
       and spontaneous symmetry breaking. 4.5. Quantum 
       fluctuations and macroscopic stability -- 5. Thermal field
       theory and trajectories in the space of the 
       representations. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Doubling the 
       degrees of freedom. 5.3. Thermo field dynamics : A brief 
       introduction. 5.4. The q-deformed Hopf algebra and the 
       doubling of the field degrees of freedom. 5.5. Free energy,
       entropy and the arrow of time. Intrinsic thermal nature of
       QFT. 5.6. Thermal field theory and the gauge field. 5.7. 
       Boson condensation at finite temperature. 5.8. 
       Trajectories in the space of representations. 
520    This book is a self-contained presentation of the quantum 
       field theory of topological defects created during 
       spontaneous symmetry breakdown phase transitions, with a 
       particular emphasis on phenomenological issues of current 
       interest. 
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