Quantum Many Body Physics (PHYS*7330)

Course Infomation

Time Table

Lectures: WF, 10:00-11:20am.
Room: C2-278.

Instructor

Anton Burkov
email: aburkov@uwaterloo.ca
Offce hours: open door, PHY 369.

Assignments and Grading

Homework: roughly every 2 weeks.
Grade: homework.

Course Topics

• Introduction to many-particle quantum mechanics, second quantization, coherent states.
• Path integral formalism for bosons and fermions.
• Matsubara formalism, formal properties of the Green's function, self-energy, quasiparticles.
• Linear response theory, metals and insulators.
• Broken symmetry, mean- eld theories. Theory of superfluidity and superconductivity.
•  Fractional quantum Hall e ect, fractional statistics in 2D, topological field theories.
• One-dimensional many-body systems and bosonization.

Recommended texts

1. J. Negele and H. Orland, Quantum Many-Particle Systems.
2. X.-G, Wen, Quantum Field Theory of Many-Body Systems.
3. N. Nagaosa, Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics.
4. A. Altland and B. Simons, Condensed Matter Field Theory.