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Date
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Topics discussed
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Books followed
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03.11.09
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Microscopic --> Macroscopic description, universality of low energy
excitations.
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Altland, Simons
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12.11.09
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Specific heat of insulator, high temperature behaviour from
classical microscopic models, continuum description, classical
fields, collective
excitations.
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Altland, Simons
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14.11.09
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Collective excitations again, another look at linear chain, dispersion
relation, low momentum limit.
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Altland, Simons
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16.11.09
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Quantum chain, quantum fields, second quantisation, quasi-particles.
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Altland, Simons
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17.11.09
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Phonons, Specific heat at low temperature. (download home
work)
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Altland, Simons; Ashcroft, Mermin
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19.11.09
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Maxwell's equations, Action construction from symmetry principles
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Srednicki
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23.11.09
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Gauge transformation, gauge invariance, Lorentz and Coulomb gauge.
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Sakurai, Weinberg
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24.11.09
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Quantum electrodynamics in Coulomb gauge
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Sakurai
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25.11.09
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Photons as quasiparticles
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Altland, Simons
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28.11.09
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Casimir Effect, discussion on van der Waal's effect. (download home work)
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Zee, papers in American J. Physics
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01.12.09
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Continuous symmetry, Noether's theorem
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Huang
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02.12.09
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Conseved currents due to Lorentz invariance. (download home work)
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Huang
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12.12.09
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Tutorial (Souvik Banerjee)
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13.12.09
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Tutorial (Souvik Banerjee)
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--
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14.12.09
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Path integrals in quantum mechanics
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Shankar
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15.12.09
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Path integrals -- simple harmonic oscillator. (download home work)
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Shankar
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16.12.09
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Path integrals -- connection with stat mech
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Shankar
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17.12.09
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Path integrals in field theory -- scalar field.
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Srednicki
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19.12.09
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Path integrals in field theory -- scalar
field.
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Srednicki
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22.12.09
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Tutorial (Souvik Banerjee)
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--
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24.12.09
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Tutorial (Souvik Banerjee)
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04.01.10
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From field to particle
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Zee
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05.01.10
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Generating Functioal
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Srednicki/Ryder
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06.01.10
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From free to interacting field
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Srednicki/Ryder
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07.01.10
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Interacting field continued, connection to Ising model. (download home work)
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Srednicki/Ryder, S.K. Ma
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11.01.10
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Generating functionals for phi-four interaction
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Ryder
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12.01.10
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Correlation functions, a hint of mass renormalisation |
Srednicki/Ryder
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13.01.10
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Tutorial (Souvik Banerjee)
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14.01.10
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First Class: Tutorial (Souvik Banerjee); Second Class: Correlation function continued
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--; Ryder
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19.01.10
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Generating function of connected diagrams
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Ryder/Srednicki
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21.01.10
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Superficial divergences, dimensional regularisation (Souvik Banerjee)
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Ryder/Srednicki
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25.01.10
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Self Energy -- summing up perturbation series. (download home
work)
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Ryder/Srednicki
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27.01.10
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Landau mean field theory of phase transition
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Chaikin, Lubensky
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28.01.10
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Renormalisation (download home
work)
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Ryder/Srednicki
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29.01.10
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Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and non-relativistic field theory
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Halpin-Healy and Zhang first few pages, Zee
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10.02.10
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Final written exam
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Open notes
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