Microscopic Quantum Many-Body Theories and Their Applications

Quantum many-body theories have become an essential tool for physicists. The field is intedisciplinary, predicting the properties of macroscopic matter based on the fundamental interactions between the elementary constituents. This text presents a systematic and pedagogical approach to the coupled cluster method, correlated basis function theory and Monte Carlo methods. The authors also discuss the future evolution of QMBT, which depends partly on establishing links between the various methods available.