Course Identification

Field theory methods in condensed matter physics
20201132

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Prof. Erez Berg, Prof. David F. Mross
Omri Lesser

Course Schedule and Location

2020
Second Semester
Monday, 09:15 - 11:00, Weissman, Seminar Rm A
Thursday, 09:15 - 11:00, Weissman, Seminar Rm A
20/04/2020

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Physical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 4.00 points
Chemical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 4.00 points
Chemical Sciences (Materials Science Track): Lecture; Elective; Regular; 4.00 points

Comments

Will be taught via Zoom starting April 19th.

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

50

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

50%
50%

Evaluation Type

Take-home exam

Scheduled date 1

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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

10

Syllabus

Renormalization group for bosons and fermions, application to Fermi-liquid theory and superconductivity; Quantum many body systems in one dimension, bosonization; Quantum phase transitions; Emergent gauge fields in condensed matter systems; Field-theory description of integer and fractional quantum Hall effect.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

Read and reproduce contemporary research papers in the field.

Reading List

Renormalization-group approach to interacting fermions, R. Shankar, Rev. Mod. Phys. 66, 129

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

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