Course Term: Michaelmas
Course Overview:
20 lectures
Weight: 1.25 units
Areas: CMT, foundational course
Please submit your homework for Advanced Quantum Theory via the 'assignments' tab.
External Lecturer(s):
Prof. Sid Parameswaran
Assessment Type:
Invigilated written examination in TT or no formal assessment; homework completion
Course Synopsis:
Path integrals in Quantum Mechanics; the propagator.
Path Integrals in Quantum Statistical Mechanics; correlation functions; perturbation theory;
Feynman diagrams.
Path Integrals and Transfer Matrices.
Transfer matrix approach to the Ising Model.
Second quantisation. Ideal Fermi gas in second quantization.
Weakly interacting Bose gas: Bogoliubov theory; superfluidity.
Spinwaves in a ferromagnet.
Landau theory of phase transitions.