Phys625: Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics (3 credits)
Spring 2004
Monday-Wednesday-Friday 12:00 - 12:50 p.m.
Physics Building, room 0405

Web page:
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/teaching/phys625.spring2004/

Instructor: Dr. Victor Yakovenko, Associate Professor
Office: Physics Building, room 2314
Phone: 301-405-6151
E-mail: yakovenk@physics.umd.edu
Office hours: Monday-Wednesday-Friday 12:50 - 1:30 p.m.

Topics to be covered

Feynman diagrams technique for phonons and electrons at zero and non-zero temperature
Scattering of electrons in impurities - theory of electric resistance
Interacting electron gas - Hartree-Fock and random-phase approximations
Magnetic instability of interacting electron gas - magnetism
Interacting electron in the atomic limit - Hubbard model
X-ray singularity and Kondo problems
Superconductivity
Introduction to
- Heavy fermions
- One-dimensional electron gas - Luttinger liquid
- High-temperature superconductivity
- Bose condensation and superfluidity

Textbook

S. Doniach and E. H. Sondheimer, "Green's Functions for Solid State Physicists" (A Reprint Volume with Additional Material on the Physics of Correlated Electron Systems, World Scientific Publishing Company, 1998)

Homework

Homework problems will be posted on this Web page. The course grade will be determined on the basis of homework. There will be no exams.

#	Topic	Due Date	Formats
1	Second Quantization	March 31	PDF, LaTeX
2	Fermi Gas	April 7	PDF, LaTeX
3	Density-Density Correlation Function	April 28	PDF, LaTeX
4	Generalized Susceptibilities at a Finite Temperature	May 5	PDF, LaTeX

Scores and Grades

The homework scores and the final grades will be posted on WebCT.

Please submit student evaluations of the course through WebCT by May 11, 2004.

Instruction how to login to WebCT can be found there.

Last updated May 1, 2004

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Phys625: Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics (3 credits) Spring 2004 Monday-Wednesday-Friday 12:00 - 12:50 p.m. Physics Building, room 0405

Web page: http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/teaching/phys625.spring2004/