PHY 5110 Solid State Physics II
3 units
Physics
Faculty of Science
Advanced solid state physics with a focus on properties of interacting systems. Methods of many-body physics, including density functional theory, many-body perturbation theory, configuration interaction, and matrix product states. Quasiparticles. Linear response theory and the random phase approximation. Superconductivity including BCS and Ginzburg-Landau theories. Topics chosen from: Kondo effect; integer and fractional quantum Hall effects; Landau theory of phase transitions; topological phases; the renormalization group; entanglement and quantum information. This course is equivalent of PHYJ 5402 at Carleton University.
Components:
Lecture
Previously Offered Terms:
Winter