Quantum matter physics course of the University of Oxford Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 1970-01-01
2011- professor: Steven H. Simon. His start date is given e.g. at: www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/condmat2012/LectureNotes2012.pdf which is presumably an older version of: www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2022/QuantumMatter.pdf
Notes/book: 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? mmathphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/course-schedule
Course page index: www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/
www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2023/quantummatter.html mentions it is given in Hilary term
2023 syllabus as per 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
- Weakly Interacting Fermions
- 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
No closed form solution, but good approximation that can be calculated by hand with the Hartree-Fock method, see hartree-Fock method for the helium atom.