Quantum States of Matter

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 112, 115A. Recommended: courses 115B, 115C, 140A. Introduction to various phases of matter that exhibit quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale. Topics may include superconductivity, superfluidity, magnetism, density waves, and the integer quantum Hall effect. Landau's phenomenological theory of symmetry-breaking phase transitions, including the application of Ginzburg-Landau theory to superconductivity. Letter grading.