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By LiAnna Davis

Graduate-level physics students across the country will be picking up Dr. Jim Freericks’ new book, Transport in Multilayered Nanostructures: The Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Approach, this fall at their campus bookstore. The preface and first chapter are also available online.

Dr. Freericks’ groundbreaking book, published by Imperial College Press in December 2006, is the first textbook on both dynamical mean field theory and strongly correlated multilayered devices. Since the topics are rapidly gaining traction as research subjects, Dr. Feericks felt the need to write a book that could assist graduate students in their research.

“I have been working in the field for many years now,” he explains. “I saw that we needed a text that could introduce students to the background for dynamical mean theory in a more modern way than most current courses. The book’s focus is on exact and numerical methods to solve the many-body problem as opposed to perturbation theory techniques, which are the most commonly taught method in courses. My intent was to create a book that required a minimal understanding of the theoretical background but could advance students to the point where they can contribute original research.”

He says that students need one year of graduate-level quantum mechanics and an undergraduate solid-state physics course to fully understand the lessons in his book.

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