Physics and Astronomy - Course Details

PHYS645 (PHYS64500)

Offering:

Fall, Class 3, cr. 3.

Prerequisites:

PHYS 601, PHYS 545, and PHYS 661, or equivalent.

Description:

Theory of the electron liquid; Fermi liquid theory; Feynman diagrams and path integrals; collective modes and screening; linear response and fluctuation-dissipation theorems; transport; impurity scattering; transport in interacting mesoscopic systems; magnetism; Bosonic superfluids; BCS and Landau-Ginzburg theories of superconductivity.