Quantum Condensed Matter Physics Lecture Notes Chetan Nayak
The
topics in the pdf include: Conventions, Notation, Reminders, Basic Formalism,
Phonons and Second Quantization, Perturbation Theory: Interacting Phonons,
Feynman Diagrams and Green Functions, Imaginary-Time Formalism Measurements and
Correlation Functions, Functional Integrals, Goldstone Modes and Spontaneous
Symmetry Breaking, Spin Systems and Magnons, Symmetries in Many-Body Theory,
Critical Fluctuations and Phase Transitions, The Renormalization Group and
Effective Field Theories, Fermions, Interacting Neutral Fermions: Fermi Liquid
Theory, Electrons and Coulomb Interactions, Electron-Phonon Interaction,
Rudiments of Conformal Field Theory, Symmetry-Breaking In Fermion Systems, Gauge
Fields and Fractionalization, Localized and Extended Excitations in Dirty
Systems.
Author(s): Chetan Nayak
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