Quantum Condensed Matter Physics Lecture Notes Chetan Nayak

Lecture notes for the Condensed Matter Physics course

Topics covered in this lecture note are : Many electron systems, Second quantization, Interactions in the electron gas, Mean field approaches. Hartree-Fock approximation, Lattice based descriptions, Artificial quantum systems, Low dimensional systems: From the real to the Hilbert space.

Author(s): Rafael Sanchez Rodrigo

85 Pages

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

480 Pages

Soft Condensed Matter

This note covers the following topics: introduction to soft materials, Surfactants,The van der Waals potential, Forces arising from fluctuations, Introduction to polymers, freely-jointed-chain calculation, worm-like chain model, The Langevin equation, Diffusion equation, The Dynamic light scattering (DLS), Liquid interfaces, The shape of a liquid interface and capillary forces, Lipid membranes, The Flory Huggins theory, Colloidal gels and the fractal dimension, Hydrodynamics.

Author(s): IA.D. Dinsmore

NA Pages

Condensed Matter Physics I

Condensed Matter Physics is the study of materials in Solid and Liquid Phases. Topics covered includes: Crystallography, Structures, Structure Determination, The Reciprocal Lattice, Electrons, Electronic State, Approximate Models, Electron-Electron Interactions, Stability of Structures, Metals, Phonons, Harmonic Phonons, Magnetic Impurities, Itinerant Magnetism, Magnetic Neutron Scattering and Superconductivity.

Author(s): Peter S. Riseborough

773 Pages

Lecture Notes Condensed Matter Theory I

This note explains the following topics: Quantum Theory Of Solids, Quantum Statistic Of Idea Gases, Second Quantization, Periodic Structures And Bloch Theorem, Electron-electron Interactions, Dynamics Of Bloch Electrons.

Author(s): J. Schmalian

70 Pages

Strongly Correlated Systems in Condensed Matter Physics

Covered topics are: Coherent States, squeezed States, Second Quantization, Bose Condensation, Superfluidity, Vortices, Finite Temperature Effects.

Author(s): Prof. Leonid Levitov

NA Pages