8.514
Strongly Correlated Systems in Condensed Matter Physics
Study of condensed matter systems where interactions between electrons play an important role. Topics vary depending on lecturer but may include low-dimension magnetic and electronic systems, disorder and quantum transport, magnetic impurities (the Kondo problem), quantum spin systems, the Hubbard model and high-temperature superconductors. Topics are chosen to illustrate the application of diagrammatic techniques, field-theory approaches, and renormalization group methods in condensed matter physics.
Fall 2003
Topics
- Coherent States
- Squeezed States
- Second Quantization Bosons
- Bose Condensation Quasiparticles
- Fermi Gases Second Quantization
- Fermi Liquids Collective Modes
- BCS Pairing Quasiparticles
- Bogoliubov-de Gennes Equation
- Quantized Electromagnetic Field Photons E & M Vacuum
- Atoms interacting with an Optical Field Lamb Shift
- Casimir Effect
- Dicke Superradiance
Readings
- Stone, Michael. The Physics of Quantum Fields. Springer, 2000.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: 8.322 and 8.333 Acad Year 2027-2028: G (Spring) Acad Year 2028-2029: Not offered 3-0-9 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2003
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.