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On this website, we will put the materials for the cours `Quantum Field theory for condensed matter' given during the spring of 2017. If you have questions, please contact Eddy Ardonne via email (ardonne@fysik.su.se).
Fysikum's website with course facts: FK8018.
Course websites from previous years Spring 2015 (Hans Hansson), Spring 2016 (David Abergel).
Updated information will be given during the lectures and via this website.
If you want to follow the course, you should register via antagning.se. Once you are accepted, register via mina studier or contact Gorica Nikolic at studentexpeditionen (also if you run into problems).
The scedule for the lectures, etc is available: as a pdf file and as html.
(email aliases for fysik.su.se in parentheses)
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The course is based on Condensed Matter Field Theory, by A. Altland and B. Simons (both first and second edition are ok).
The lecture notes (which are only lecture notes!) will be uploaded after the lectures. The exercise sets will be uploaded before the sessions.
| date | session | description | material |
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| March 22 | Lec. 1 | Intro and second quantization; AS chapter 2 |
notes lecture 1 |
| March 24 | Lec. 2 | Applications of second quantization; AS chapter 2, till p. 66 |
notes lecture 2 |
| March 29 | Lec. 3 | Hubbard model and Magnetism; AS chapter 2, till p. 83, but not 67-75 |
notes lecture 3 |
| March 31 | Tut. 1 | Exercises related to AS chapter 2 | Exercise set 1 |
| April 5 | Lec. 4 | Path integrals and coherent states; AS chapter 3,4 |
notes lecture 4 |
| April 7 | Lec. 5 | Path integral for quantum partition function; Matsubara sums AS chapter 4 |
notes lecture 5 |
| April 12 | Lec. 6 | Perturbation theory AS chapter 5 |
notes lecture 6 |
| April 19 | Lec. 7 | Perturbation theory AS chapter 5 |
notes lecture 7 |
| April 21 | Lec. 8 | Linear response AS chapter 7 |
notes lecture 8 |
| April 26 | Tut. 3 | Exercise set 2 | Exercise set 2 |
| April 28 | Lec. 9 | Superconductivity AS section 6.4 |
notes lecture 9 |
| May 3 | Lec. 10 | Superconductifity, cont. AS section 6.4 |
notes lecture 10 |
| May 5 | Tut 4. | Phonons and Exercise set 2 | |
| May 10 | Lec. 11 | BEC AS section 6.3 |
notes lecture 11 |
| May 12 | Lec. 12 | BEC and Majorana bound states Kitaev & Laumann, sections 1,2 |
notes lecture 12 |
| May 12 | Tut. 5 | Exercise set 3 | Exercise set 3 |
| May 17 | Tut. 6 | Exercise set 3 | |
| May 19 | Lec 13 | Toric code Kitaev & Laumann, sec 3,4 up to 4.2 |
notes lecture 13 |
| May 24 | Lec 14 | Toric code, continuation. | notes lecture 14 |
| May 26 | Question session | ||
| June 1 | Exam |
The final exam will be on Thursday, june 1st. It will be a take-home exam.
It will be mailed out at 8:00, and should be handed in to Gorica at
the student expedition on Friday, june 2nd, 13:00 at the latest. You
can email a pdf file, or hand in a paper version in person.
The hand in exercises make up 0.60 of the grade, the final exam 0.40.
The grade boundaries are as follows:
Fx: 0.45, E: 0.5, D: 0.6, C: 0.7, B: 0.8, A: 0.9
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