This volume is devoted to the theory of superfluid quantum liquids, describing the Landau theory of a neutral Fermi liquid in order to illustrate, in comparatively elementary fashion, the way both quantum statistics and particle interaction determine system behavior.

Special Preface -- Preface -- Special Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- Neutral Fermi Liquids -- Response and Correlation in Neutral Systems -- Charged Fermi Liquids -- Response and Correlation in Homogeneous Electron Systems -- Microscopic Theories of the Electron Liquid -- Introduction -- Experimental And Theoretical Background On He II -- Elementary Excitations -- Elementary Excitations in He II -- Superfluid Behavior: Response To A Transverse Probe. Qualitative Behavior Of A Superfluid -- Superfluid Flow: Macroscopic Limit -- Basis for the Two-Fluid Model -- First, Second, And Quasi-Particle Sound -- Vortex Lines -- Microscopic Theory: Uniform Condensate -- Microscopic Theory: Non-Uniform Condensate -- Conclusion -- * Second Quantization

Nozieres, Philippe | Pines, David