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Recent developments of perturbation theory at finite temperature based on effective field theory methods are reviewed. These methods allow the contributions from the different scales to be separated and the perturbative series to be…
We derive finite temperature expansions for relativistic fermion systems in the presence of background magnetic fields, and with nonzero chemical potential. We use the imaginary-time formalism for the finite temperature effects, the…
It is shown that there is the possibility to find at least in the perturbation framework the Matsubara theory from the $S-$matrix interpretation of the real-time finite-temperature theory if the system under consideration is in an…
We discuss the prospects of performing high-order perturbative calculations in systems characterized by a vanishing temperature but finite density. In particular, we show that the determination of generic Feynman integrals containing…
At zero temperature coupled cluster theory is widely used to predict total energies, ground state expectation values and even excited states for molecules and extended systems. Generalizations to finite temperature exist, however, they are…
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