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Tfy4210, quantum theory of manyparticle systems, 2016. We show how important phenomena in 1dphysics can be studied by physical realization of systems of trapped atoms in ringshaped optical lattices. Correlations in lowdimensional quantum manyparticle systems erik eriksson department of physics university of gothenburg se412 96 gothenburg, sweden abstract this thesis concerns correlation e ects in quantum manyparticle systems in one and two dimensions. Second quantization representation for classical many particle system masao doi department of physics, faculty of science, tokyo metropolitan university, setagaya, tokyo, 158 japan received 11 february 1976, in final form 5 april 1976 abstract. Quantum theory of manyparticle systems dover books on. In chapter 1 we discuss the paradigms that have dominated condensed matter physics for much of the 20th century, and the.
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