Many-Body Theory for Condensed Matter Systems
Concepts and physical pictures behind various phenomena that appear in interacting many-body systems. Visualization occurs through concentration on path integral, mean-field theories and semiclassical picture of fluctuations around mean-field state. Topics covered: interacting boson/fermion systems, Fermi liquid theory and bosonization, symmetry breaking and nonlinear sigma-model, quantum gauge theory, quantum Hall theory, mean-field theory of spin liquids and quantum order, string-net condensation and emergence of light and fermions.
Fall 2021 · Modern Quantum Many-body Physics for Condensed Matter Systems
This graduate-level course covers the quantum effect in solids. It focuses on the concepts and physical pictures behind various phenomena that appear in interacting many-body systems.
Readings
Fall 2004
This course covers the concepts and physical pictures behind various phenomena that appear in interacting many-body systems. Visualization occurs through concentration on path integral, mean-field theories and semi-classical picture of fluctuations around mean-field state.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: 8.033 , 8.05 , 8.08 , and 8.231 Acad Year 2027-2028: Not offered Acad Year 2028-2029: G (Fall) 3-0-9 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2021
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2004
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.