TVI/TMP-TA4: Condensed Matter Field Theory – Lecture notes

Lecture	Topics	References
1	Introduction	Introduction
2	Field theory, path integrals	Altland/Simons Ch. 3
3-5	Instantons	Instantons
6-11	Non-equilibrium field theory	Sections refer to Kamenev's book. General idea of the closed contour (Sect. 1.1) Bosons: toy model, continuum limit, GFs, Keldysh rotation, structure of action, sources (Sects. 2.2, 2.4-2.8) Fermions: same topics as for bosons (Sects. 9.2-9.5) Interactions (Sect. 5.2) and polarization operator (Sect. 9.7) From Dyson's eq. to kinetic eq., Wigner transform, semiclassical approx. (Sects. 5.3, 5.5-5.8) RPA, fermionic collision integral, quasi-particle lifetime (Sect. 9.8)
12	Spin representations	Spins
13	Kondo model	Kondo
14	Single-impurity Anderson model	SIAM
	Beyond the Fermi liquid picture, Tomonaga-Luttinger model, Bosonization, and Luttinger liquid theory	notes from last year

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