Quantum Many Body Theory

Phys 7280 Quantum Many Body Theory

Spring 2008

Week 1, Jan 14-18: The formalism of Green's functions in quantum mechanics
Week 2, Jan 21-25: Calculating Green's functions, bound states and scattering amplitudes
Week 3, Jan 29-Feb 1: Creation and annihilation operators (the case of bosons)
Week 4, Feb 4-8: Using creation and annihilation operators. Holstein-Primakoff bosons.
Week 5, Feb 11-15: Green's functions of many body systems, time ordered Green's functions.
Week 6, Feb 18-22: Interaction representation, perturbation theory, Feynman diagrams
Week 7, Feb 25-29: Weakly interacting Fermi gas, particle interactions
Week 8, Mar 3-7: Weakly interacting Fermi gas, quasiparticles
Week 9, Mar 10-14: The Luttinger theorem
Week 10, Mar 17-21: Weakly interacting Bose gas, superfluidity
Week 11, Mar 24-28: Spring Break
Week 12, Mar 31-Apr 4: Quantum motion in a random potential
Week 13, Apr 7-11: Diffusion in a random potential
Week 14, Apr 14-18: Thermal Green's functions, Matsubara frequencies
Week 15, Apr 21-25: Fermi gas with attractive interactions, microscopic theory of supercoductivity
Week 16, Apr 28-May 2: Review

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