Course syllabus and reading assignments
 
 
Date Subject Sections in Bruus & Flensberg
January 26  Preliminaries 5.1-5.5
January 28  Green functions 8.1-8.3, 11.1, 11.2
February 2
 Kubo formula
6.1
February 4
 Ideal Fermi gas
9.1
February 9
 Impurity scattering
5.7
February 11
 Perturbation theory: imaginary time
11.6, 12.1, 12.2
February 16  Perturbation theory: real time

February 18  Many impurities
12.3-12.6
February 23
 Electrical conductivity 6.2, 16.1-16.3
February 25  Polarizability 6.4
March 2
 Diffusion modes

March 4
 Weak localization
16.5
March 9
 no lecture
March 11
 no lecture
March 16  Random matrix theory
16.6
March 18  Interacting electrons
4.1-4.3, 13.1-13.6
March 30
 Random phase approximation
14.1-14.4
April 1
 Collective modes
14.5
April 6
 Interactions and disorder

April 7
 Magnetic susceptibility

April 8
 Ferromagnets 4.5
April 13
 Phonons 3.1, 3.3-3.5, 17.1
April 15
 Electron-phonon interaction
3.2, 3.6. 3.7, 17.2-17.4
April 20
 Superconductivity 17.5, 18.1-18.5
April 21
 Meissner effect
18.6, 18.7
April 22
 Kinetic equation for superconductors

April 27 One dimensional metal
19.1-19.3, 19.5-19.7
April 29
 Luttinger Liquid
19.4, 19.8
May 4
 Impurity scattering in one dimension