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Lectures prepared for the XX Training Course in the Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems held in Vietri sul Mare (Sa), October 3–7, 2016.

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Acknowledgements

The preparation of the lectures and of the lecture notes has greatly benefitted from the reading of the Ph.D. theses by M. Sandri, G. Mazza and F. Peronaci and it is based on the precious collaborations with A. Amaricci, M. Fabrizio, C. Giannetti and M. Schiró on these topics. We also acknowledge useful discussions with A. Avella, V. Brosco, A. Cavalleri, F. Cilento, R. Citro, L. de’ Medici, M. Eckstein, D. Fausti, G. Giovannetti, L. Fanfarillo, G. Kotliar, G. Mazza, D. Mihajlovic, F. Novelli, F. Parmigiani, S. Peli, F. Peronaci, G. Sangiovanni, M. Sandri, A. Toschi, A. Valli, P. Werner.

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    Massimo Capone

  2. Physics King’s College, London, UK

    Carla Lupo

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Capone, M., Lupo, C. (2018). Towards the Understanding of Superconductors and Correlated Materials out of Equilibrium: Mean Field Approaches. In: Citro, R., Mancini, F. (eds) Out-of-Equilibrium Physics of Correlated Electron Systems. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 191. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94956-7_2

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