Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (20-12-713)

 

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Syllabus:

• Second quantization

• Electronic and optical properties of:

  • Free-electron systems (review)

  • Correlated electron systems

• Fermi liquid theory

• Symmetry breaking

  • Quantum magnetism

  • Superconductivity (BCS, GL, quantum phase transition, order, psudogap phase)

  • Spin liquid

• Topological phases

  • Band inversion

  • flat bands

• Kitaev model 

 

 

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References:

 

 

• Altland, Alexander, Simons, Ben, Condensed Matter Field Theory, Cambridge  University Press

 

• Michael P. Marder, Condensed Matter Physics, John Wiley & Sons

 

• Philip Phillips, Advanced Solid State Physics, Cambridge University Press

 

• Eduardo Fradkin, Field Theories of Condensed Matter Physics, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press

 

• J. Solyom & A. Piroth, Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

 

• Patrik Fazekas, Lecture Notes on Electron Correlation and Magnetism, World Scientific

 

• Grosso, Giuseppe, Parravicini, Giuseppe Pastori, Solid State Physics, 2nd Ed., Academic Press 

 

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