Concepts of condensed matter physics Spring 2025
- Lectures are in the Drory on Tuesdays and in Room B on Wednesdays from 9:15 to 11:00 AM. Links for recorded lectures from 2020 are given below)
- This is the Zoom link to the live talks.
- Link to the course exercise submission page.
- Literature and general reading material
- Lecture notes
- Recorded lectures
The yellow highlights indicate the date when the lecture took place in the 2025 class, followed by recordings from previous years.- Introduction (March 25th, 2025, and April 1st, 2025 (no recording) April 9 2024 talk, April 22, 2020: talk)
- Spin Models 1 (April 2nd and 8th, 2025 May 8 2024 talk, May 26, 2020: talk)
- (First and Second quantization of interacting particles in bands, Three Channels: Direct, Exchange and Pairing, Heisenberg Model and its Mean-Field Solution)
- Spin Models 2 (April 9th, 2025, May 22, 2024 talk , May 27, 2020: talk, June 3, 2020: talk))
- Electrons in a periodic lattice 1 (March 26th, April 22nd, April 23rd 2025 April 16-17, 2024 talk1 talk2 talk3, May 5, 2020: talk)
- (Basic concepts, Bloch theorem, Tight bonding, 1D chain, Discrete symmetries)
- Electrons in a periodic lattice 2 April 23rd 2025,(Symmetries)(May 1 2024 talk, May 6, 2020: talk, notes
- Quantum Hall Effect 1 May 20th 2025 ( 2024 (self watch), May 12, 2020: talk)
- (Drude model, Classical Hall Effect, Quantum Hall Effect, Quantum conductance in 1D, Fractional Charges, Kubo Formula for conductivity, Chern numbers )
- Tutorial 1 Anomalous velocity, April 29, 2025, talk notes
- Superfluid 1 May 13 2025 (May 29 2024, June 16 2020: talk)
- (Global Gauge Symmetry, The Bose-Einstein Condensation, Weakly Interacting Bose Gas, Superfluidity, Landau's Argument, Quntized Circulation, Irrotational flow, Vortices)
- Superfluid 2 May 14 2025(June 4 2024 talk, June 17 2020 talk)
- Tutorial: Path integral and Hubbard-Stratonovich May 27, 2025, talk (May 21, 2024 talk, June 9, 2020: notes-Ch.6 talk)
- Superconductivity
- (Cooper pairs, BCS theory, Ginsburg -Landau Theory of Superconductors, Local gauge symmetry and the Anderson-Higgs Mechanism, Phenomenology: London Equation, Vortices, Coherence length and Penetration depth, Type I and II superconductors.)
- Superconductivity 2 May 21, 2025 (June 5 2024 talk, June 25 2020: talk)
- Superconductivity 3 May 21, 2025 and June 3 2025[Phenomenology](June 5 2024 talk, June 30 2020: talk)
- The 2D XY Model: The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition June 4 2025(June 18 2024 talk, July 7 2020: notes talk)
- (Vortices in the XY model, Kosterlitz-Thouless Argument, Describing vortices as a Coulomb gas, RG Approach, The order of the KTB phase transition, Coulomb gas and the Sine-Gordon mapping (Momentum RG))
- 2D XY June 10, 2025 June 19 2024 talk
- 2D XY 3 June 17, 2025- self watch and submit a short ex., June 25 2024 talk
- Quantum Hall Effect 1 June 18 and June 24, 2025 - notes chapter on quantum Hall effect and submit a short ex. (July 2 2024 talk July 3 3024 talk, May 12, 2020: talk)
- (Drude model, Classical Hall Effect, Quantum Hall Effect, Quantum conductance in 1D, Fractional Charges, Kubo Formula for conductivity, Chern numbers )
- Superconductivity 4 (Turotial: Tolmachev Anderson-Morel RG for the Cooper channel) June 11, 2025 talk (June 15 2022, July 1 2020: talk)
- July 1 and July 2, 2025 discussion of the quantum Hall effect
- Exercises
