Extensively updated with 200 extra pages, the new edition of this successful book includes the field's cutting-edge areas: spin-orbit coupling in heterostructures and spintronics; the conductivity problem: conductivity of quantum wires, magnetoconductivity of nanostructures, spin-Hall conductivity; atomic Fermi gases in traps; non-collinear local spin density approximation calculations; and Brueckner–Hartree–Fock in finite size systems.

Contents:

• The Independent-Particle Model
• The Hartree–Fock Theory
• The Brueckner–Hartree– Fock Theory
• The Density Functional Theory
• The Confined 2D Electron Gas in a Magnetic Field
• Spin–Orbit Coupling in the Confined 2D Electron Gas
• Monte Carlo Methods
• The Linear Response Function Theory
• The Linear Response Function in Different Models
• Dynamic Correlations and Response Function
• The Hydrodynamic and Elastic Models