General Theory of Many-Particle Systems

Zusammenfassung

In this chapter, we extend the concepts developed in the previous chapters to many-particle systems. Specifically, we consider a physical system consisting of N particles of masses m₁,...,m_N which interact pairwise via the potentials V_ij (x_i − x_j), where x_j is the position of the j-th particle. Examples of such systems include atoms or molecules – i.e., systems consisting of electrons and nuclei interacting via Coulomb forces.