Statistical Physics

Michael Cross, Caltech: Physics 127c

The third term discusses the application of statistical mechanics to interacting quantum systems and some special topics. These notes are not intended to be a complete account of the class discussion, but attempt to summarize the main points.

• Lecture 1: Second Quantization
• Lecture 2: Feynman Diagrams
• Lecture 3: Weakly Interacting Bose Gas
• Lecture 4: Superfluidity
• Lecture 5: Vortex Lines
• Lecture 6: Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition
• Lecture 7: Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Traps
• Lecture 8: Weakly Interacting Fermions
• Lecture 9: Fermi Liquid Theory: Principles
• Lecture 10: Fermi Liquid Theory: Thermodynamics
• Lecture 11: Collective Modes in Fermi Liquid
• Lecture 12: Superconductivity: Microscopics
• Lecture 13: Superconductivity: Thermodynamics and Superflow
• Lecture 14: Superconductivity: Ginzburg-Landau Theory
• Lecture 15: Monte Carlo Method
• Lecture 16: Quantum Monte Carlo
• Lecture 17: Path Integral Method
• Lecture 18: Applications of Path Integrals to Superfluidity

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