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These lectures are a brief introduction to the methods of “finite temperature field theory”. By this one refers to a collection of techniques which have been de- veloped, for a large part of them, long ago in the context of quantum statistical mechanics, the so-called “many-body” problem. These were typically applied to non relativistic systems such as the electron gas, liquid Helium, nuclear matter, etc. More recently, these methods have been extended to systems of relativistic particles interacting with gauge fields, for which new interesting technical and conceptual issues appear.
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Blaizot, JP. (2002). Quantum Fields at Finite Temperature: A Brief Introduction. In: Blaizot, JP., Iancu, E. (eds) QCD Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter. NATO Science Series, vol 87. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0267-7_9
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