Many-Body Physics

Course no: 20-10-717

Room: 1  Sun. & Tue. 15:00 - 16:30

Mid-term exam:  Khordad

Final exam: 1402/3/27     @  8:30

Syllabus:

• Second quantization
• Linear response theory
• Zero-temperature Green function
• Wick theorem
• Feynman diagrams
• Finite-temperature Green function
• Matsubara Green function
• Dyson equation
• Interacting electron gas
• Fermi liquid theory

Text : 

• Many-Particle Physics 3^rd Ed., Mahan
• Many-Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics, Bruus & Flensberg
• Introduction to Many-Body Physics, Coleman
• Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems, Fetter & Waleca
• A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem, Mattuk
• Green's Functions in Quantum Physics, Economu

Introduction and History: 

• "Many-Body Physics: Unfinished Revolution", P. Coleman (Rutgers), 
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-003-0943-9,        https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307004

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