Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories

Section I: Ludwig Boltzmann.- Life of a Physicist: Ludwig Boltzmann 1844-1906.- Recent Applications of Boltzmann’s Theory.- Cycles of the Transition Processes as Basic Idea of Ludwig Boltzmann.- Section II: Quantum Fluids.- Recent Progress in the Theory of Highly Correlated Quantum Fluids.- Systematics and Numerics in Many-Body Systems.- Multiphonon Excitations in Bose Films.- Theory of 3He Submonolayers in 4He Films.- Impurity Distribution in Helium Droplets.- Excitations in Quantum Boson Fluids.- Dynamic Structure Function of 3He-4He Mixtures in the Deep Inelastic Regime.- Section III: Quantum Chemistry.- Research of Appropriate Treatments of the Various Aspects of the Electron Correlation in Molecules and their Interplay.- A Coupled Cluster Approach to the Electron Correlation Problem Using a Correlated Reference State.- Relativistic Coupled Cluster Calculations.- Correlation in Collisions.- Section IV: Nuclear Physics.- Nuclear Physics: An Historic Overview.- Realistic Microscopic Calculations of Nuclear Structure.- Microscopic Theories of Atomic and Nuclear Optical Potentials.- An Exotic Many Body System: The Quark-Gluon Plasma.- Variational Description of Collective Isospin Modes in Heavy Nuclei.- Section V: Lattice Hamiltonians.- Microscopic Theories of Quantum Lattice Systems.- A Nonperturbative Microscopic Theory of Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge Systems.- Quantum Antiferromagnets: From Néel Ordered Groundstates to Spin Liquids.- Enhancement of the Finite Lattice Method for Estimating the Zero Temperature Properties of Quantum Spin Systems in Two Dimensions With Application to the S = 1/2 XY Ferromagnet on the Square Lattice.- Relationship Among the Hubbard t — J and Tomonaga-Luttinger Models.- Section VI: Complex Systems.- Complexity, Correlations andFluctuations in Many-Particle Systems.- Connectionist Statistical Inference.- Coupling Between Slow and Fast Degrees of Freedom in Systems With Complex Spectra.- Densities of States and Thermodynamics of Mega-Dimensional Sparse Matrices.- Quantum Chaos and Fundamental Symmetry Violations in Nuclei and Other Complex Systems.- Section VII: Solids.- High Temperature Superconductors: A Review.- A Proposed Interaction Model for the HighTcCuprates.- Spectator Fermion Binding of Bosons.- Theory for Normal State Magnetic Properties of High-TcSuperconductors: Doping and Temperature Dependence.- Green’s Function Method in the Theory of Strongly Correlated Pseudospin-Electron Systems.- Composite Fermion Wave Functions for Strongly Correlated Two-Dimensional Electron Systems in High Magnetic Fields.- Static and Dynamic Effects in Coupled Quantum Wells.- Polaron Properties of the Holstein Model.- Improved Treatment of Frequency Sums in Propagator-Renormalized Perturbation Theories.- Consistent Low-Energy Reduction of the Three-Band Model for Electrons and Holes in Copper Oxides to the Effective t — J Model.- Section VIII: Feenberg Medal Presentation.- Pathways to the Quantum Realm.- The Simulation of Quantum Systems.