Physics and Astronomy - Course Details
PHYS645: Electron Theory of Solids I (PAST/FUTURE SEMESTER)
Offering:
Fall, Class 3, cr. 3.
Prerequisites:
PHYS 601, PHYS 545, and PHYS 661, or equivalent.
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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.
Instructor(s):
Biswas, Rudro
Email:
Biswas, Rudro
Textbook(s) for Fall 2017
Title | Author | Edition | ISBN | Publisher | Req/Opt | Notes |
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Many-Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics | Henrik Bruus and Karsten Flensberg | Nov. 11, 2004 | 978-0198566335 | Oxford University Press | Required |
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