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The physical world consists of interacting many-body systems. Their exact description would require the solution of the corresponding many-body Schrödinger equations, which however is as a rule not feasible. The goal of theoretical physics therefore consists of developing concepts with whose aid a many-body problem can be approximately solved in a physically reasonable manner.
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Nolting, W., Brewer, W.D. (2009). Second Quantisation. In: Fundamentals of Many-body Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71931-1_1
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