Physics 797M - ST-Topics in Many Body Physics

Many-body physics puts together the fundamental microscopic laws and produces new emergent principles that describe the macroscopic behavior of the system. Quantum field theory is a universal language that describes the emergent behavior, typical examples of which are "quasiparticle excitations." This is one of the notions that make quantum condensed matter systems so fascinating. We will cover many topics including Green's functions and Feynman diagrams, Landau's Fermi liquid theory, the quantum Hall effect, topological states of matter, fermionization, and more. We will spend some time performing analytical calculations using these methods. Knowledge of second quantization (for example from P615) is a prerequisite.

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