# PHY2321H S SPECIALIZED Many Body Physics I

## Official description

1. Linear response theory for many-body systems
2. Coherent state path integrals for bosons
3. Superfluidity and superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition
4. Coherent state path integrals for fermions
5. Density and spin response of fermions
6. Interacting fermions: Collective modes and response
7. Interacting fermions: Phenomenology of Fermi liquid theory
8. Interacting fermions: Superconductivity and BCS-BEC crossover

Reference: A. Altland and B. Simons, "Condensed Matter Field Theory" [Cambridge]Cambridge]

Prerequisite
Required background: Quantum mechanics, Statistical mechanics, and Quantum theory of Solid I
Textbook
                            1.  Introduction to Many Body Physics: Piers Coleman
2.  Condensed Matter Field Theory: A. Altland and B. Simons

course title
PHY2321H S SPECIALIZED
session
winter
group
specialized course
time and location
Wednesdays and Fridays, 2 - 3 pm
instructor

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