Course Announcement: Physics 8806.02 Field Theory in Quantum Many-Body Physics

[Lu, Yuanming]

Dear all:

I'd like to make an announcement for a graduate course in the coming 2016 spring semester, aiming at students interested in condensed matter research. The information and syllabus of the course is summarized in the attachment.

The goal of this special topic course is to introduce the method of quantum
field theory, and show how it can be applied to understand a quantum con-
densed matter system of many degrees of freedom. The effective field theory
language becomes extremely powerful when dealing with a large number
of particles that strongly interact with each other. It provides a natural
description of emergent phenomena such as magnetism and superconductivity.
Starting from the path integral formulation, we’ll discuss a number of phe-
nomena in strongly correlated quantum many-body systems: such as mag-
netism, superconductivity and Kondo effect. In particular we’ll focus on physics
in one spatial dimensions, where many physical properties can be understood
in a quantitative fashion. In addition to understanding these properties, we’ll
also discuss how to experimentally measure them via linear responses.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,

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Yuan-Ming Lu

Assistant Professor of Physics | The Ohio State University
191 W Woodruff Avenue, Columbus OH 43210

Office:  2012 Physics Research Building
Phone:  614-292-3084
Fax:      614-292-7557
email:   lu.1435 at osu.edu

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