Official description

Topics may include:

• Classical many-body problem
• Quantum many-body formalism, and free systems of fermions and bosons
• Linear response theory and susceptibilities
• Mean-field: Path-integral, Hubbard-Stratonovitch decoupling, and collective modes
• Concept of quasi-particles and effective free description
• Destruction if quasiparticle in 1d: bosonization

Numerical homework will illustrate the course materials