Course Term: Trinity
Course Overview:
8 lectures.
Weight: 0.5 Units
Areas CMT
This is a reading course. Under the guidance of the course organiser, students will give presentations based on key papers in quantum condensed matter theory. Some examples of the topics for these presentations are: Kramers-Wannier duality for the Ising model. Feynman's wavefunction approach to superfluid helium. The Haldane conjecture for integer quantum spin chains. Quantum friction. Homotopy and defects. Renormalisation group for Fermi liquids. The Kondo effect and scaling. Fractional statistics. Hartree-Fock and random-phase approximations.
External Lecturer(s):
Prof. John Chalker
Assessment Type:
No formal assessment; homework completion requirement.