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PHYS645 — Fall 2024

PHYS645: Electron Theory of Solids I

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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):
NIE, LAIMEI


Email:
nlm@purdue.edu


Textbook(s) for Fall 2024

Title Author Edition ISBN Publisher Req/Opt Notes
Many-Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics Henrik Bruus,Karsten Flensberg 9780198566335 Oxford University Press Optional
Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid Gabriele Giuliani,Giovanni Vignale 9780521821124 Cambridge University Press Optional
Solid State Physics David Snoke 9781107191983 Cambridge University Press Optional
Solid State Physics Neil W. Ashcroft,AshcroftNeil W.,N. David Mermin 9780030839931 Cengage Learning Optional

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