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In this course and possible forth coming courses, we will mainly talk about

• Quantum Statistical Ensembles
• Superfluidity
• Landau Fermi Liquid Theory
• Kubo Theory
• Green Functions at zero temperature and finite temperature and their application in electron-electron, electron-phonon and electron-impurity systems
• Nonequilibrium Green Function (sometimes also called closed path Green Functions or Keldysh Green Functions) and its application in transport/kinetic theory
• Path Integral Theory and Its Applications
• Renormalization Group Theory
• and more
  

Do be prepared to have a lot of free time if you take this course as there will be heavy readings and derivations as assignments of this course.

Unlike my other courses such as Solid State Theory, there are many discussion sessions of this course. Therefore, I only take registered students in my class.

Please study Wu's General Course Policies before you register.

References:

• Kerson Huang, "Stastical Mechanics" (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New York, 1987)
• G.D. Mahan, "Many-Particle Physics" (Kluwer Academic, New York, 2000)
• E. M. Lifshitz and L. P. Pitaevskii, "Stastical Physics" (Butterworth Heinemann, 1998)
• A.A. Abrikosov, L.P. Gorkov, and I.E. Dzyaloshinski, "Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics" (Dover, New York, 1963)
• N. Nagaosa, "Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics" (Springer, Berlin, 1999)
• J.W. Negele and H. Orland, "Quantum Many-Particle Systems" (Perseus Books, 1988)
• L.S. Schulman, "Techniques and Applications of Path Integration" (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1981)
• H. Haug and A.P. Jauho, "Quantum Kinetics in Transport and Optics of Semiconductors" (Springer, Berlin, 1998).
• Jorgen Rammer, "Quantum Transport Theory" (Perseus Books, 1998).
• A. Altland and B. Simons, "Condensed Matter Field Theory" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006).
• H. Bruus and K. Flensberg, "Many-Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics" (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004).
• T. Giamarchi, "Quantum Physics in One Domension" (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004).
• G.F. Giuliani and G. Vignale, "Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005).
• A.J. Leggett, "Quantum Liquids" (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
• S.R. de Groot and P. Mazur, "Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics" (North-Hollabd Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1962).
• A. Auerbach, "Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism" (Springer, Berlin, 1994).
• C.J. Pethick and H. Smith, "Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002).

 
 
                                                      
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