Quantum Field Theory and Many Body Physics (SS2016)

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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.

NEW TIME FOR TUTORIAL: MONDAY: 8am-10am Hoersaal B

Examination info:

Exams can be reviewed on Wednesday July 27 at 1-3pm in room 1.4.36.

The exam results can be found here.

Lecture notes:

• Chapter 1: Phases and Phase Transitions (PDF)
• Chapter 2: Transverse field Ising model (PDF)
• Chapter 3: Harmonic Chain (PDF)
• Chapter 4: Path Integrals (PDF)
• Chapter 5: Linear Response and Correlation Functions (PDF)
• Chapter 6: Boson Functional Integrals (PDF)
• Chapter 7: Interacting Bose systems (PDF)
• Chapter 8: Charged Superfluid (PDF)
• Chapter 9: Interacting Bose Systems: Finite Temperature and Topological Excitations (PDF)
• Chapter 10: Fermionic Functional Integrals (PDF)
• Chapter 11: Hubbard-Stratonovich Transformation and RPA (PDF)
• Chapter 12: Hubbard-Stratonovich Transformation and BCS (PDF)
• Chapter 13: Peierls instability and fermion mass generation (PDF)
• Chapter 14: Feynman Diagrams I (PDF)
• Chapter 15: Feynman Diagrams II (PDF)
• Chapter 16: Josephson Junction (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)
• Problem set 7 (PDF)
• Additional problem set 7 (PDF) and some supplementary materials (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) and the paper by Ambegaokar et al. PDF