PHYS-EV0001 - Quantum field theory in condensed matter physics, Lecture, 9.1.2023-6.4.2023

Topic outline

• Week 3: Green's functions and linear response theory
  Response functions, Green's function. Sections 6.1, 7.1 and parts of 7.5 in Bruus & Flensberg.

  Condensed matter topic: electric susceptibility of electron gas

  
  

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    Week 3 prelecture assignment
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    Week 3 lecture jupyter notebook File

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    Updated 22.1.2023: minor tweaks.

    Updated 23.1.2023: added Monday's solutions.

    Updated 24.1.2023: added Monday's videos and minor corrections.

    Updated 25.1.2023: added Wednesday's videos and solutions.

    Updated 26.1.2023: added Thursday's videos and solutions.

    Updated 28.1.2023: previous update was the wrong file. This is correct.
    

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    Youtube-link on contour integration URL

    Mathemaniac: Complex integration, Cauchy and residue theorems

    
    

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    Complex analysis and contour integration, Byron&Fuller File

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    Byron and Fuller, Mathematics of classical and quantum physics, pages 305-335.
    

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    Greens functions, Byron&Fuller File

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    Byron and Fuller, Mathematics of classical and quantum physics, pages 388-411.
    

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    Week 3, Monday quiz
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    Week 3, Wednesday quiz
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    Week 3, Thursday quiz
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    Nightreading for week 3: Excerpt from Volovik The Universe in a Helium Droplet. Updated 14.1.2023 File

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    Volovik, pages 17-21.