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''' Welcome to the Quantum Many Body Physics PHY5670 Fall2010'''
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''' Welcome to the Quantum Many Body Physics PHY5670 Fall2010'''


PHY5670 is a one semester graduate level course. Its aim is to introduce basic concepts, and logical framework, of this vast and developing discipline: broken symmetry and adiabatic continuity. Theoretical techniques, such as coherent state path integrals and diagrammatic perturbation expansions, will be used to emphasize these deeper underlying concepts, as well as to provide practical means of calculations. Few illustrative physical systems and quantum many-body models will also be studied.
PHY5670 is a one semester graduate level course. Its aim is to introduce basic concepts, and logical framework, of this vast and developing discipline: broken symmetry and adiabatic continuity. Theoretical techniques, such as coherent state path integrals and diagrammatic perturbation expansions, will be used to emphasize these deeper underlying concepts, as well as to provide practical means of calculations. Few illustrative physical systems and quantum many-body models will also be studied.

Revision as of 16:36, 18 August 2010

Welcome to the Quantum Many Body Physics PHY5670 Fall2010 ManyBody.JPG

PHY5670 is a one semester graduate level course. Its aim is to introduce basic concepts, and logical framework, of this vast and developing discipline: broken symmetry and adiabatic continuity. Theoretical techniques, such as coherent state path integrals and diagrammatic perturbation expansions, will be used to emphasize these deeper underlying concepts, as well as to provide practical means of calculations. Few illustrative physical systems and quantum many-body models will also be studied.

The key component of the course is the collaborative student contribution to the course Wiki-textbook. Each team of students is responsible for BOTH writing the assigned chapter AND editing chapters of others.

Team assignments: Fall 2010 student teams



Outline of the course:


Conceptual basis of many body physics

Broken symmetry

Adiabatic principle

Theoretical methods

"Second" quantization

Coherent state path integrals

Green's function and diagramatic perturbation theory

Linear response and fluctuation dissipation theorem

Saddle point approximation and broken symmetry