Condensed Matter Field Theory

Nice book. Beware of typos.

固体物理学において、場の量子論の適用が説明された良書だと思います。

This is a FABULOUS text. A very thorough and very careful study of this text will develop deep intuition. A&S provide TONS of detailed examples and applications. More elaborate examples are developed periodically though the text. Examples include quantum dissipative tunneling, 1D tomonaga-luttinger liquid, using and XY models, non linear sigma models, kondo, chern Simons, non-eq, and much MUCH more I am beyond surprised how much detail is packed into 800 pages. There are some annoyances I have however. I'd much prefer a single application proceed from start to finish in the same section. In some cases you need to flip between 2 or 3 chapters to reorient yourself for a specific application...this is merely a minor inconvenience and if you take detailed notes you can just refer to those as you go along. Another inconvenience is the small margins. I prefer MASSIVE margins for note taking but these are maybe 1/2-3/4 inch. This book will prepare you VERY well for more advanced books (fradkin) and topics or current research. One HUGE problem however has nothing t do with the content. Cambridge press evidently has cut back costs while maintaining price and the result is binding that fall apart. If you buy a 70$ hardcover book you kind of expect the thing to not fall apart but I've had this happen with more than a few Cambridge books. It only takes a month or so before they separate from the hardcover. Buyer beware

This book starts from what I consider to be the starting point for condensed matter theory, and connects the concepts with topics from quantum field theory. The description is pretty unassuming, making it very accessible to beginning graduate students like myself. Of course it does not provide rigorous explanations of quantum field theory, but anyone with an elementary understanding should be able to appreciate many of the concepts presented in this book.

I am a post-doc who learned field theory from a high energy physics perspective, but never knew much about how it can be applied in cond. mat. I found that this book was excellent and easy to understand.