Phys832: Theory of Solids I (3 credits)
Fall 2000
Monday and Wednesday 5:00 - 6:15 p.m.
Physics Building 4220
Web page:
www2.physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/teaching/phys832.fall2000/
Instructor: Dr. Victor Yakovenko, Assistant Professor
Office: Physics 2314
Phone: 301-405-6151
E-mail: yakovenk@physics.umd.edu
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 4-5 p.m.
Topics to be covered
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Path integrals and functional integrals
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Standard (zero-temperature and thermal-equilibrium-Matsubara) diagram techniques
in the language of functional integrals
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Non-equilibrium (Schwinger-Keldysh) diagram technique with mesoscopic applications
(tunneling contacts)
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BCS theory of superconductivity
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Andreev reflection and Josephson junctions
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Collective modes in superfluids and superconductors
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Required
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A. M. Zagoskin, Quantum Theory of Many-Body Systems (Springer, 1998)
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Recommended
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J. W. Negele and H. Orland, Quantum Many-Particle Systems (Addison-Wesley,
1988)
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V. N. Popov, Functional Integrals and Collective Excitations (Cambridge
University Press, 1987)
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More about path and functional integrals
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H. Kleinert, Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics and Polymer
Physics (World Scientific, 1995)
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V. N. Popov, Functional Integrals in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical
Physics (Reidel-Kluwer, 1983), out of print, but in EPSL
I have requested to put the first three books on reserve at EPSL.
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