By N N Bogolubov, Jr (ed.)
World Scientific
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Nicolai Bogolubov (1909–1992) was well known in the world of high-energy physics as one of the founders of JINR, Dubna, and the first director of the Laboratory Theoretical Physics, now named after him. He was also well known in the wider community for his many contributions to quantum field theory and to statistical mechanics. Part I of this book, which is edited by his son, contains some of the elder Bogolubov’s papers on quantum statistical mechanics, a field in which he obtained a number of fundamental results, in particular in relation to superfluidity and superconductivity. Superfluidity was discovered in Russia in 1938 by Kapitza, and in 1947 Bogolubov published his theory of the phenomenon based on the correlated interaction of pairs of particles. This later led him to a microscopic theory for superconductivity, which helped to set the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer theory on firm ground. Part II is devoted to methods for studying model Hamiltonians for problems in quantum statistical mechanics, and is based on seminars and lectures that Bogolubov gave at Moscow State University.
