Concepts of condensed matter physics Spring 2014
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Literature and general reading material
- Suggested literature
- "More is different" P. W. Anderson 1972
- "Sueprfluidty Melting and Liquid Cristal Phases in 2D" H. I. Halperin 1979
- Lecture notes
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Tutorial notes
- Tutorials 1 & 2 - path integral formalism in imaginary time
- Tutorial 3 - Mermin-Wagner-Berezinski theorem (test case - superfluid phase fluctuations)
- Tutorial 4 - Mean-field solution of the BCS instability
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Exercises
- Exercise 1 – mean-field solution of the metallic ferromagnet and spin wave dispersion of the 2d antiferromagnet
- Exercise 2 – soft modes: derivation of the XY model and the effects of phonons in a crystal
- Exercise 3 – The Josephson effect, AB superconducting ring and the Anderson-Morel mechanism (suppliment to question 3)
- Exercise 4 - The BKT transition and dissipative Josephson junctions
- Exercise 5 - Graphene, Quantum Hall effect and Chern insulators
