Mon 10:40 - 12:30 & Wed 10:40-11:30 P-422
James F. Annett. Superconductivity, Superfluids, and Condensates (Oxford Master Series in Condensed Matter Physics) 2004
Girvin, Steven M., and Kun Yang, Modern condensed matter physics, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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
Grading: in-class assignments (ICA) 30%, Midterm (MT) 30%, Final Exam (F) 40% (Total 100).
Letter grades: AA (90), BA (85), BB (80), CB (75), CC(70), DC (65), DD(60), FD(50), FF (0)
Class attendance and participation is mandatory for a passing grade independent of exam results.
For additional 10%, you can conduct a term project, 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.
Bose-Einstein condensates
Sep 29 Introduction and course plan (video) Non-interaction Bose-Einstein condensation (video)
Oct 01 Trapped atomic gases, Gross-Pitaevskii equation (video)
Superfluids
Oct 09 Superfluid He4, lambda transition, superfluid velocity (video)
Oct 13 Vortices, codensate fraction (video) Galilean invariance, Landau criterion (video)
Oct 16 In-class assignment #1
Superconductors
Oct 20 Superconductors phenomenology (video) London equations and Meissner effect (video)
Ginzburg-Landau formalism
Oct 23 Ginzburg-Landau formalism for uniform superconductor (video)
Oct 27 Ginzburg-Landau formalism for nonuniform superconductor (video) Ginzburg-Landau formalism with magnetic field (video)
Oct 30 Gauge symmetry, flux quantization (video) In-class assignment #2
Nov 03 Type II superconductors, Abrikosov vortex lattice (video) Thermal fluctuations (video)
Coherent states, second quantization
Nov 06 Coherent states (video)
Nov 10 Bosonic quantum fields (video) Weakly interacting Bose gas (video)
Nov 13 Bogoliubov transformation (video)
Nov 17 Fermionic quantum fields (video) Josephson junctions, macroscopic quantum coherence (video) In-class assignment #3
BCS Theory of superconductivity
Nov 24 Phonon, quantization of lattice vibrations (video) Electron-phonon interaction, Cooper instability (video)
Nov 27 BCS wave function (video)
Dec 01 Variational energy and BCS gap equation (video), Mean-field BCS Hamiltonian, Bogoliubov transformation (video)
Dec 04 BCS energy gap, quasiparticle excitations (video)
Unconventional superconductors
Dec 08 Superfluid phases of He-3 (video) Unconventional superconductors (video)
Strongly correlated quantum phenomena
Dec 15 Hubbard model (video) Heisenberg model (video)
Dec 18 Quantum magnets, Holstein-Primakoff transformation (video)
Dec 22 Thermal and quantum fluctuations in magnets (video), Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem (video)
Dec 26 Spin-1/2 chains, confined or deconfined spinons (video)
Final Exam: Please check METU SIS for details.
Makeup Exam: Information will be emailed to eligible students.
(**)The content outlined is subject to change depending on our pace in this semester.
Steven H. Simon's Quantum Matter Series
Subir Sachev The Quantum Phases of Matter
Eduardo Fradkin's QFT I (see video lectures) and QFT II (and video lectures)