PHYS 7022 - Quantum Many-Body Theory

Basic concepts, techniques, and phenomena in many-body physics. Techniques include Hartree-Fock approximation and other effective one-particle descriptions; Green’s functions and diagrammatic techniques; canonical transformations and variational approaches, path integrals. Concepts: collective excitations and linear response, screening and dielectric functions, quasiparticles and spectral representations, correlations in fermion and boson systems. Applications include electron gas, polarons, metal-insulator transition, magnetism, superconductivity, nuclear matter, and cold atoms.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I