TVI/TMP-TA4: Condensed Matter Many Body Physics and Field Theory II – Overview

Overview

Condensed Matter Many-Body Physics and Field Theory II (TMP-TA 4)

Björn Sbierski
B.Sbierski@lmu.de
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wintersemester 2022/23

Announcements

The course grades below are now final. If you want to have a certificate ("Schein") for this course, fill the form with your grade and the personal data and send the PDF to our secretary Kathrin Higgen (Kathrin.Higgen@physik.uni-muenchen.de) not later than March 12. I will sign the forms and you can pick them up at Kathrin's office A419 after March 21.

Exam results:

ID	points	grade (incl. bonus)
#12485472	26	2.3
#12386934	26	2.3
#11939350	20	3.3
#11741146	20	3.3
#12455020	15	4.0

Exam review (Klausureinsicht) was on Monday, Feb 27, 11:00 - 12:00 in office A418 (Theresienstr. 37).

Have a nice semester break!

Organization

• Lectures: In-person teaching, start on Oct. 17, 2022. Last lecture Tuesday Feb. 07, 2023.

– Mondays: 14:20 (Theresienstr. 37, A449)
– Tuesdays: 12:00 (Theresienstr. 41, C111)

• Tutorial sessions: Benedikt Schneider (Schneider.Benedikt@physik.uni-muenchen.de), start on Oct. 25, 2022.

– Tuesdays: 16:15 - 18:00 (Theresienstr. 37, A450)

– Weekly homework will be assigned in the Monday lecture and collected one week later at the start of the lecture. The homework will be graded according to a coarse grading scheme with 0, 1 or 2 points per problem. In the tutorial session, the homework will be handed back and the solutions will be discussed.

– A bonus on the final grade (1.3 -> 1.0, 1.7 -> 1.3, 2.0 -> 1.7 etc.) will be granted to candidates who (i) earned at least 50% of all available homework points and (ii) presented at least one homework problem at the board in the tutorial session.

• Exam (9 ETCS): Tuesday Feb 14, 2023; 12:00 - 14:00 in room C111, closed book exam but double-sided sheet of notes allowed, no electronic devices allowed, 120 minutes.

Prerequisites

• Quantum Mechanics, Solid State Theory, Statistical Physics
• Condensed Matter Many-Body Physics and Field Theory I (TMP - TA 3)
(basics of quantum field theory, correlation functions, functional integral, generating functionals, perturbation theory)

Literature

[Altland] Alexander Altland and Ben Simons, Condensed Matter Field Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition
[Auerbach] Assa Auerbach, Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism, Springer-Verlag
[Cardy] John Cardy, Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics, Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics
[Kamenev] Alex Kamenev, Field Theory of Non-Equilibrium Systems, Cambridge University Press
[Kopietz] Peter Kopietz, Lorenz Bartosch, Florian Schütz, Introduction to the Functional Renormalization Group, Lecture Notes in Physics

Contents (short)

1. Critical Phenomena and Renormalization Group
2. Functional Renormalization Group
3. Non-Equilibrium (Keldysh formalism, kinetic equation)
4. Quantum Magnetism

Homework (due on)

Oct. 24, 2022: 1.1 and 1.2
Oct. 31, 2022: 1.3 and 2.1
Nov. 07, 2022: 2.2 and 3.1
Nov. 14, 2022: 3.2 and 3.3
Nov. 21, 2022: 4.1 and 4.2
Nov. 28, 2022: 4.3 and 4.4
Dec. 05, 2022: 4.5 and 4.6
Dec. 12, 2022: 5.1 and 5.2
Dec. 19, 2022: 6.1 and 7.1
Jan. 09, 2023: 7.2 and 7.3
Jan. 16, 2023: 9.1 and 9.2
Jan. 23, 2023: 10.1 and 11.1
Jan. 30. 2023: 12.1 and 13.1
Feb. 06. 2023: 14.1 and 16.1