- Lectures + References/Materials
| Date | Subject | Material |
|---|---|---|
| Sat. 24 Shah. | Introduction + Motivation | Slides |
| Sat. 31 Shah. | Non-interacting electrons + Thermodynamic properties of Fermi gas | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 1.1.1, 1.1.3 |
| Mon. 2 Mehr | Periodic Cristals + Reciprocal lattice | Sigrist’s Lecturenote 1.1 |
| Sat. 7 Mehr | Electrons in periodic potential | Sigrist’s Lecturenote 1.2, 1.3 |
| Mon. 9 Mehr | Tight-binding approximation | Sigrist’s Lecturenote 1.4.1, 1.4.2 |
| Sat. 14 Mehr | Example: band structure of p-orbitals | Sigrist’s Lecturenote 1.4.3 |
| Mon. 16 Mehr | Wannier functions + band-filling and material properties | Sigrist’s Lecturenote 1.4.4, 1.6 + Slides |
| Sat. 21 Mehr | Second quantization | Chapter 1 of book by Fetter |
| Mon. 23 Mehr | Second quantization | Chapter 1 of book by Fetter + Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 3.1-3.3 |
| Sat. 28 Mehr | One-body and two-body operators | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 3.4, 3.5 |
| Mon. 30 Mehr | Solving with second quantization | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 3.6 |
| Sat. 5 Aban | Linear response | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 2.1-2.4 |
| Mon. 7 Aban | Linear response | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 2.1-2.4 |
| Mon. 7 Aban+ | Free electron excitation | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 4.2 |
| Sat. 19 Aban | Photoemission spectroscopy | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 4.3 |
| Mon. 21 Aban | Interacting systems | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 1.2-1.4, 4.1 |
| Sat. 26 Aban | Fermi liquid theory | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 4.4-4.5 + Chapter 2 of Book by Mahan |
| Mon. 28 Aban | Fermi liquid theory | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 4.4-4.5 |
| Sat. 3 Azar | Collective modes, Mean field approximation | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 5.1 |
| Mon. 5 Azar | Collective modes | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 5.2 |
| Sat. 10 Azar | Phase transition, Spin and charge instabilities | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 6.1-6.2 |
| Mon. 12 Azar | Nesting of Fermi Surface, Antiferromagnetic order | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 6.3 |
| Sat. 17 Azar | BCS instability | Giamarchi’s Lecturenote 6.4 |
| Mon. 19 Azar | Midterm exam | Midterm exam questions |
- Lecturenotes
Lecturenote of Manfred Sigrist at ETHZ.
Lecturenote of Thierry Giamarchi at University of Geneva.
- Books
| Author | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| M. P. Marder | Condensed matter physics | John Wiley & Sons, 2000 |
| P. Coleman | Introduction to Many Body Physics | Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
| A. L. Fetter, J. D. Walecka | Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems | Courier Corporation, 2003 |
| N. W. Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin | Solid State Physics | Saunders College, 1976 |
| Ch. Kittel | Quantum theory of solids | John Wiley and Sons, 1987 |
| G. D. Mahan | Many-Particle Physics | Springer, 2000 |
| D. Pines and P. Nozières | The theory of Quantum liquids | W.A. Benjamin, New York, 1966 |
| S. H. Simon | The Oxford Solid State Basics | Oxford University Press, 2013 |