Course Identification

Title:

Condensed matter field theories

Code:

20241032

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. David F. Mross

TA's:

N/A

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2024

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Sunday, 13:15 - 15:00, Weissman, Seminar Rm B
Tuesday, 13:15 - 14:00, Weissman, Seminar Rm B

First Lecture:

07/04/2024

End date:

09/07/2024

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Physical Sciences: 3.00 points
Chemical Sciences: Elective; 3.00 points

Comments

N/A

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

20

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Assignments:

50%

Final:

50%

Evaluation Type

Take-home exam

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

10

Syllabus

Path integral methods for bosons, fermions, and spins; Renormalization group techniques; Superfluids; Low dimensional systems and Bosonization; Quantum phase transitions; Emergent gauge fields in condensed matter systems

Learning Outcomes

Read and reproduce contemporary research papers in the field.

Reading List

Alexander Altland, Ben Simons: Condensed matter field theory

Thierry Giamarchi: Quantum physics in one dimension

Subir Sachdev: Quantum phase transitions

Xiao-Gang Wen: Quantum field theory of many-body systems

Website

N/A