After successful completion of the course, students are able to comprehend the materials presented in the lecture and to draw conclusions from them, as well as to actively communicate the contents presented during the lecture.
First steps to many body physics, 2nd quantization (extra lecture?), many-body Green functions, self energy and quasi particles, Feynman diagrams, perturbation theory, linear response theory, vertex and susceptibilities, polarization and RPA screening. Current research topics such as DMFT.
For second quantization also see the quantum mechanics 2 skriptum available via TISS.
The lecture will be in English or German depending on the students preferences.. First lecture Wednesday, 4.3.2020, 16:00 Sem. room yellow 09. A brief presentation of the lecture within the presentations of all IFP lectures is on Tuesday, March 3rd 2020. There is also an (optional) exercise UE(1) 138.088 associated with the lecture .
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Exams: the exact dates for the oral examinations (in July and September) will be communicated before the end of the lecture.
Registration to the oral exam:
Please send an email to both Prof. A. Toschi and Prof. K. Held, at least one week before the chosen exam date.
The subjects of the oral examination are all the topics discussed during the lectures (s. lecture notes for details), including the Introduction to DMFT.
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Lecture notes will be available via TISS.
Additional references for further reading:
*) A. Altland and B. Simons, Condensed Matter Field Theory, Cambridge University Press (2006).
*) A. Zagoskin, Quantum Theory of Many-Body Systems: Techniques and Applications, Springer (New York).
*) G. D. Mahan, Many-Particle Physics, Springer Science & Business Media, (2000).
*) A. A. Abrikosov, L. P. Gorkov, I. E. Dzyaloshinski, Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics, Dover Publications, 1975.
*) P. Coleman, Introduction to Many-Body Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
