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We have generalized the linked cluster expansion method to solve more many-body quantum systems, such as quantum spin systems with crystal-field potentials and the Hubbard model. The technique sums up all connected diagrams to a certain order of the perturbative Hamiltonian. The modified multiple-site Wick reduction theorem and the simple $\tau$ dependence of the standard basis operators have been used to facilitate the evaluation of the integration procedures in the perturbation expansion. Computational methods are developed to calculate all terms in the series expansion. / As a first example, the perturbation series expansion of thermodynamic quantities of the single-band Hubbard model has been obtained using a linked cluster series expansion technique. We have made corrections to all previous results of several papers (up to fourth order). The behaviors of the three dimensional simple cubic and body-centered cubic systems have been discussed from the qualitative analysis of the perturbation series up to fourth order. We have also calculated the sixth-order perturbation series of this model. / As a second example, we present the magnetic properties of spin-one Heisenberg model with arbitrary crystal-field potential using a linked cluster series expansion. The calculation of the thermodynamic properties using this method covers the whole range of temperature, in both magnetically ordered and disordered phases. The series for the susceptibility and magnetization have been obtained up to fourth order for this model. The method sums up all perturbation terms to certain order and estimates the result using a well-developed and highly successful extrapolation method (the standard ratio method). The dependence of critical temperature on the crystal-field potential and the magnetization as a function of temperature and crystal-field potential are shown. The critical behaviors at zero temperature are also shown. The range of the crystal-field potential for Ni(2+) compounds is roughly estimated based on this model using known experimental results. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: B, page: 1445. / Major Professor: Yung-Li Wang. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.