4024111 – Condensed Matter Theory II: Many-Body Theory

ILIAS page for the exercises: https://ilias.studium.kit.edu/goto.php/crs/2902766

Lectures (Language: English)
Tuesday: 09:45-11:15, 30.22 Physik-Hörsaal Nr. 3 (Kl. HS A), from 21.04 to 28.07.
Thursday: 14:00-15:30, 30.22 Otto-Lehmann-Hörsaal, from 23.04 to 30.07.

Content

1. Introduction
2. Green's functions for noninteracting particles
3. Many-body Green's functions at zero temperature. Diagrammatic technique for interacting particles. Fermi-liquid theory. Collective excitations
4. Green's functions and diagrammatic technique at finite temperatures (Matsubara technique)
5. Functional integral formalism
6. Superconducting systems
7. Interacting many-body systems in one dimension: Bosonization, Luttinger liquid
8. Quantum transport in disordered systems
9. Magnetic impurities and Kondo effect
10. Non-equilibrium systems. Keldysh technique, quantum kinetic equation

Literature

• A.A. Abrikosov, L.P. Gor’kov, I.E. Dzyaloshinskii, Methods of QFT in statistical physics
• E.M. Lifshitz, L.P. Pitaevskii, Statistical Physics, Part 2 [L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics, vol. 9 ]
• G.D. Mahan, Many-particle physics
• J.W. Negele, H. Orland, Quantum many-particle systems
• P. M. Chaikin, T. C. Lubensky, Principles of Condensed Matter Physics
• E. Fradkin, Field Theories of Condensed Matter Physics
• A. Altland, B. Simons, Condensed matter field theory
• H. Bruus, K. Flensberg, Many-body quantum theory in condensed matter physics
• P. Coleman, Introduction to Many-Body Physics
• S. M. Girvin, Kun Yang, Modern Condensed Matter Physics
• G. Giuliani, G. Vignale, Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid
• J.R. Schrieffer, Theory of superconductivity
• A. Kamenev, Field theory of non-equilibrium systems
• T. Giamarchi, Quantum physics in one dimension

Igor Gornyi, Ihor Poboiko

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Heute

30. Jul 2026

Vorlesung

Di 30.22 Physik-Hörsaal Nr. 3 (Kl. HS A), vom 21.04 bis 28.07. Do 30.22 Otto-Lehmann-Hörsaal, vom 23.04 bis 30.07.

Di 09:45-11:15, Do 14:00-15:30

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