Physics 632: Quantum Theory of Solids
This page includes material that was created to teach an advanced graduate course on the Quantum Theory of Solids
As reference book I mainly used:
Alexander Altland and Ben Simons, "Condensed Matter Field Theory" 2nd Edition
Of course, like with any advanced graduate course the course does not fully follow one textbook and below is a non-exhaustive list of additional useful references
Xiao-Gang Wen, "Quantum Field Theory of Many-Body Systems"
Henri Orland and John W. Negele, "Quantum Many-particle Systems"
Eduardo Fradkin, "Field Theories of Condensed Matter Physics"
Alexander Fetter and John Dirk Walecka, "Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems"
Gerald Mahan, "Many-particle physics"
Piers Coleman, "Introduction to Many-Body Physics"
You are most welcome to use my notes in teaching, however, kindly inform me and I would be very happy to receive from you any suggestions for improvement. It is impossible to catch all of this on a first round
Available files are listed in green not available yet is listed in red
Lecture downloads (loosely based on book chapters that are listed):
Chapter 1:
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Chapter 8 or wrap-up
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