Th\'eor\`emes de de Finetti, limites de champ moyen et condensation de   Bose-Einstein
  These lecture notes treat the mean-field approximation for equilibrium states of N body systems in classical and quantum statistical mechanics. A general strategy to justify effective models based on assumptions of statistical independence of the particles is in presented in detail. The main tools are a structure theorems of de Finetti that describe large N limits of states accessible to the systems in question, exploiting the indistinguishablity of particles. The focus is on quantum aspects, particularly the mean-field approximation for the ground state of a large system of bosons, in connection with Bose-Einstein condensation: structure of reduced density matrices of a large bosonic system, localization methods in Fock space, derivation of Hartree and non-linear Schr\"odinger effective energy functionals. 
Nicolas Rougerie (LPMMC)
math-ph cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.stat-mech math.AP math.MP