Mon 10:40 - 12:30 & Wed 10:40-11:30 P-421
Piers Coleman, Introduction to Many-Body Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2015
A. Altland, B.D. Simons, Condensed Matter Field Theory, Cambridge University Press 2023
A. A. Abrikosov, L. P. Gorkov, I. E. Dzyaloshinski, Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics, Dover Publications, 1975.
E.M. Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii, Statistical Physics Part 2, Butterworth-Heinemann 1980
Girvin, Steven M., and Kun Yang, Modern condensed matter physics, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool".
In-class assignments (ICA) 30%, Midterm (MT) 30%, Final Exam (F) 40% (Total 100).
Letter grades will be given as follows
AA (90), BA (85), BB (80), CB (75), CC(70), DC (65), DD(60), FD(50), FF (0)
Attendance and participation is mandatory for a passing grade independent of exam results.
For term projects, see recommended papers here.
(*) Additional requirements can be posted in case of abuse.
By registration, you are assumed to accept the code of ethics & core values of METU and commit to maintain academic honesty and integrity for this course.
Sep 30 Second quantization, Jordan-Wigner, Electron gas, Hartree-Fock approximation
Oct 07 Quantum harmonic oscillator, coupled chain, phonons In-class assignments #1
Oct 14 Green functions and perturbation theory
Oct 21 Generating functions and Wick's theorem
Oct 28 Adiabaticity, Gell-Mann-Low theorem, Generating function for fermions
Nov 04 Zero temperature Feynman diagrams
Nov 11 Linked cluster theorem, many-particle Green functions
Nov 18 Midterm
Nov 25 Application of zero temperature Feynman diagrams
Dec 02 Analytic properties and linear response
Dec 09 Susceptibility, Linhard function, RPA In-class assignment #2
Dec 16 Imaginary time formalism
Dec 23 Applications of imaginary time formalism
Dec 30 Electron-phonon coupling
Jan 09 Final exam
(**)The content outlined is subject to change depending on our pace in this semester.