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Concepts of condensed matter physics Spring 2024

 

 

  • Lectures are in the Drory on Tuesdays and in Room B on Wednesdays from 9:15 to 11:00 AM. Links for recorded lectures from 2020 are given below)
  • This is the Zoom link to the live talks.
  • Link to the course exercise submission page.
  1. Literature and general reading material
  2. Lecture notes
  3. Recorded lectures  :
    1. Introduction (April 9 2024 talk, April 22, 2020: talk)
    2. Electrons in a periodic lattice 1 (April 16-17, 2024 talk1 talk2 talk3, May 5, 2020: talk)
      • (Basic concepts, Bloch theorem, Tight bonding, 1D chain, Discrete symmetries)
    3. Electrons in a periodic lattice 2 (Symmetries)(May 1 2024 talk, May 6, 2020: talk, notes
    4. Quantum Hall Effect 1 ( 2024 (self watch), May 12, 2020: talk)
      • (Drude model, Classical Hall Effect, Quantum Hall Effect, Quantum conductance in 1D, Fractional Charges, Kubo Formula for conductivity, Chern numbers )
    5. Tutorial 1 Anomalous velocity (May 8) notes
    6. Spin Models 1 (May 8 2024 talk, May 26, 2020: talk)
      •  (First and Second quantization of interacting particles in bands, Three Channels: Direct, Exchange and Pairing, Heisenberg Model and its Mean-Field Solution)
    7. Tutorial: Path integral and Hubbard-Stratonovich (May 21, 2024 talk, June 9, 2020: notes-Ch.6 talk)
    8. Spin Models 2 (May 22, 2024 talk , May 27, 2020: talk, June 3, 2020: talk))
    9. Tutorial (Self Watch) (Mermin-Wagner, Chern number) (May 28 2024, June 10, 2020: notes,  talk)
    10. Superfluid 1 (Self Watch) (May 29 2024, June 16 2020: talk)
      • (Global Gauge Symmetry, The Bose-Einstein Condensation, Weakly Interacting Bose Gas, Superfluidity, Landau's Argument, Quntized Circulation, Irrotational flow, Vortices)
    11. Superfluid 2 (June 4 2024 talk, June 17 2020 talk)
    12. Superconductivity 
      • (Cooper pairs, BCS theory, Ginsburg -Landau Theory of Superconductors, Local gauge symmetry and the Anderson-Higgs Mechanism, Phenomenology: London Equation, Vortices, Coherence length and Penetration depth, Type I and II superconductors.)
        • Superconductivity 1 (Turorial BCS and GL theory)(skipped, June 23 2020: notes talk)
      • Superconductivity 2 (June 5 2024 talk, June 25 2020: talk)
      • Superconductivity 3 [Phenomenology](June 5 2024 talk, June 30 2020: talk)
    13. The 2D XY Model: The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition(June 18 2024 talk, July 7 2020: notes talk)
      • (Vortices in the XY model, Kosterlitz-Thouless Argument, Describing vortices as a Coulomb gas, RG Approach, The order of the KTB phase transition, Coulomb gas and the Sine-Gordon mapping (Momentum RG))
      • 2D XY June 19 2024 talk  
      • 2D XY 3 June 25 2024 talk
    14. Quantum Hall Effect 1 (July 2 2024 talk July 3 3024 talk, May 12, 2020: talk)
      • (Drude model, Classical Hall Effect, Quantum Hall Effect, Quantum conductance in 1D, Fractional Charges, Kubo Formula for conductivity, Chern numbers )
  4. Exercises
    1. Exercise 1a Posted April  17 Due date April 30
    2. Exercise 1b Posted May  02 Due date May 16
    3. Exercise 2   Posted May  23 Due date June 6
    4. Exercise 3   Posted June 12 Due date June 27   
    5. Exercise 4   Posted June 30 Due date July 14 
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