Source: cirosantilli/quantum-matter-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford

= Quantum matter physics course of the University of Oxford
{tag=Condensed matter physics course of the University of Oxford}

2011- professor: <Steven H. Simon>. His start date is given e.g. at: http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/condmat2012/LectureNotes2012.pdf which is presumably an older version of: http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2022/QuantumMatter.pdf

Notes/book: http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2022/QuantumMatter.pdf Marked as being for <Oxford MMathPhys>, so it appears that this is a 4th year course normally. TODO but where is it listed under the course list of MMapthPhys? https://mmathphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/course-schedule

Course page index: http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/
* 2022 homepage: http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2022/QCM2022.html

http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2023/quantummatter.html mentions it is given in <Hilary term>

2023 syllabus as per http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2023/quantummatter.html#Syllabus[]:

* Fermi Liquids
  * Weakly Interacting Fermions
    * Perturbation Theory
    * <Hartree-Fock method>
    * Effective Mass
  * Response Functions and Screening
    * Thomas Fermi
    * RPA
    * Plasmons
  * Landau Fermi Liquid Theory
* <Superfluidity>
  * Two Fluid Model and Quantized Circulation
  * Landau Criterion for Superfluidity
  * Two Fluid Model for Superconductors
    * London Theory
    * Flux Vortices
    * Type I and Type II superconductors
  * Microscopic Superfluidity
    * Coherent States
    * Bose Condensation
    * Gross Pitaevskii Equation
    * Off Diagonal Long Range Order
    * Feynman Theory of Superfluidity (in book, but will skip in lectures. Not examinable)
  * Ginzburg Landau Theory of Superfluids
    * Neutral Superfluids
    * Charged Superfluids
    * Anderson - Higgs Mechanism
    * Rederviation of London Equations
    * Ginzburg - Landau Parameter and Type I/II revisited
    * Vortex Structure
* <BCS Theory> of Superconductors
  * Phonons
  * The Cooper Problem
  * BCS wavefunction
  * Bogoliubov Excitation Spectrum
  * Majorana Physics