05-21-2018-vl Effective field theory and many-body theory

Instructors: Prof. Ph. D. Achim Schwenk

Event type: Lecture

Org-unit: Dept. 05 – Physics

Displayed in timetable as: 05-21-2018-vl

Subject:

Crediting for:

Hours per week: 3

Language of instruction: Englisch

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Course Contents:
This course will give an introduction to effective field theories and the physics of many-body systems, with special attention to modern concepts and to applications ranging from cold atoms to nuclei, neutron stars and condensed matter systems. 

Outline: 

1. Introduction
2. Effective field theory and renormalization
3. Universality and cold atoms
4. Review of second quantization and applications
5. Path integrals and many-body partition function 
6. Perturbation theory, Feynman rules and applications 
7. Superconductivity, BCS theory and Nambu-Gorkov formalism 
8. Fermi liquid theory

Literature:
Chapters 4-7 of the course will follow: A. Altland and B. Simons, Condensed Matter Field Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, 2010.

Additional literature will be provided in the lecture.

Preconditions:
Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Physics, and Advanced Quantum Mechanics.
Nuclear Theory is recommended, but not necessary.

Expected Number of Participants:
20