Teaching

Under construction... Below I'm sharing some lecture notes from a selection of courses I taught at UMass Amherst. Lecture notes for the courses I'm currently giving at University of Geneva will be shared later here (but are already available on Moodle if you are a UNIGE student). 

Special Topics: Solid State Physics (P897), UMass Amherst graduate course

Lecture Notes:

1. Introduction

2. Transverse Field Ising Chain

3. Quantum-Classical Correspondence

4. Majorana Field Theory

5. Scale Invariance and RG

6. Bosonization and Luttinger Liquids

7. Gauge theories

Solid State Physics (P715), UMass Amherst graduate course

Lecture Notes:

• Introduction

• Early days

• Band theory: part 1, part 2

• Phonons

• Dynamics of electrons in solids

• Topology in band theory