Quantum Field Theory and Many Body Physics (SS2015)

Course information:

Here you can find the general informations concerning the course.

If you are planning to hand in your solutions of the problem sets, please send an email with your name and matriculation No. (or equivalent information) to: yang.peng@fu-berlin.de.

Schedule:

Week of June 22:

Lecture: Mo 22.6 10-12; Th 25.6 10-12; Fr 26.6 8-10
Exercise: Fr 26.6 12-14 (SR 1.4.31)

Week of June 29:

Lecture: Mo 29.6 10-12; Th 2.7 10-12; Fr 3.7 8-10
Exercise: Fr 3.7 12-14 (SR 1.4.31)

Week of July 13:

Lecture: None
Exercise: Mo 13.7 10-12

Lecture notes:

Chapter 1: Harmonic chain (PDF)
Chapter 2: Path integral (PDF)
Chapter 3: Linear response and correlation functions (PDF)
Chapter 4: Second quantization (PDF)
Chapter 5: Bosonic functional integral (PDF)
Chapter 6: Interacting Bose systems (PDF)
Chapter 7: Interacting Bose systems and superfluidity (PDF)
Chapter 8: Interacting Bose systems: finite temperature and topological excitation (PDF)
Chapter 9: Fermionic functional integral (PDF)
Chapter 10: Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation and RPA (PDF)
Chapter 11: Superconductivity (PDF)
Chapter 12: Perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams (PDF)
Chapter 13: Green functions and Feynman diagrams (PDF)

Problem sets:

Problem set 1 (PDF)
Problem set 2 (PDF)
Problem set 3 (PDF)
Problem set 4 (PDF)
Problem set 5 (PDF)
Problem set 6 (PDF)
Additional problem set 6 (PDF) and some supplementary materials (PDF)
Problem set 7 (PDF)
Problem set 8 (PDF)
Problem set 9 (PDF)
Problem set 10 (PDF)
Problem set 11 (PDF)
Problem set 12 (PDF)
Problem set 13 (PDF)