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FK8018 - Quantum field theory for condensed matter - VT 2018 | Fysikum |
On this website, we will put the materials for the cours `Quantum Field theory for condensed matter' given during the spring of 2018. If you have questions, please contact Eddy Ardonne via email (ardonne@fysik.su.se).
Fysikum's website with course facts (swedish for the time being): FK8018.
Course websites from previous years Spring 2015 (Hans Hansson), Spring 2016 (David Abergel), Spring 2017 (Eddy Ardonne, but based on a different book!).
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.
(email aliases for fysik.su.se in parentheses)
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The course is based on Introduction to Many-Body Physics, by Piers Coleman. This book is available as an e-book (you may need to log in with your university account): e-book via Cambridge University Press.
The lectures and tutorials are in room FB41, unless stated
otherwise.
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 20, 15:15 | Lec. 1 | Intro and second quantization; Coleman chapter 3 |
notes lecture 1 |
| March 23, 10:15 | Lec. 2 | Applications of second quantization; Coleman chapter 3 and 4 |
notes lecture 2 |
| March 27, 15:15 | Lec. 3 | Hubbard model and Magnetism; Coleman chapter 4 |
notes lecture 3 |
| April 3, 15:15 | Tut. 1 | Exercises related to Coleman chapters 2 | |
| April 6, 10:15 | Tut. 2 | Exercise sheet 1: Coleman chapter 3,4 |
Exercise set 1 |
| April 10, 15:15 | Lec. 4 | Coleman chapter 4 | notes lecture 4 |
| April 13, 10:15 | No lecture or tutorial! | ||
| April 17, 15:15 | Lec. 5 | Green's functions Coleman chapter 5 |
notes lecture 5 |
| April 18, 13:15 Room C5:1007 |
Lec. 6 | Green's functions | notes lecture 6 |
| April 20, 10:15 | Lec. 7 | Fermi liquids Coleman chapter 6 (6.1-6.3) |
notes lecture 7,8 |
| April 24, 15:15 | Lec. 8 | Fermi liquids Coleman chapter 6 (6.3-6.4) |
notes lecture 7,8 |
| April 27, 10:15 | Tut. 3 | Exercise sheet 2: Coleman chapter 5,6 |
Exercise set 2 |
| May 4, 10:15 | Tut. 4 | Exercise sheet 2: Coleman chapter 5,6 |
Exercise set 2 |
| May 8, 15:15 | Lec. 9 | Finite temperature Coleman chapter 8 |
notes lecture 9,10 |
| May 15, 15:15 | Lec. 10 | Finite temperature Coleman chapter 8 |
notes lecture 9,10 |
| May 18, 10:15 | Lec. 11 | Phase transitions and broken symmetry Coleman chapter 12 |
notes lecture 11 |
| May 22, 10:15 | Lec. 12 | Ginzburg-Landau theory Coleman chapter 12 |
notes lecture 12 |
| May 25, 13:15 | Tot. 5 | Electron-phonon interaction; exercise set 3 |
Exercise set 3 |
| May 29, 13:15 | Lec. 13 | Superconductivity Coleman chapter 12 |
notes lecture 13 |
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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