Develops modern approaches to quantitative microscopic description of strongly-interacting quantum many-particle systems, including the helium liquids, nuclear matter, neutron-star matter, nuclei, and strongly-coupled electron systems. Emphasis is placed on the method of correlated basis functions method and the self-consistent Green's function method and their relationships. Cluster analysis, hypernetted-chain procedures, Monte Carlo sampling algorithms, diagram resummation, and field-theoretic techniques are introduced. The microscopic basis for pairing in superfluids and superconductors is examined.
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