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Effective Field Theory and the Fermi Surface

Joseph Polchinski

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9210046

Abstract

This is an introduction to the method of effective field theory. As an application, I derive the effective field theory of low energy excitations in a conductor, the Landau theory of Fermi liquids, and explain why the high-Tc superconductors must be described by a different effective field theory.

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