Individual course details
Study programme Master Studies in Physics
Chosen research area (module) Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Nature and level of studies Graduate Academic Studies
Name of the course Quantum Many-Body Theory
Professor (lectures) Mihajlo Vanevic
Professor/associate (examples/practical) Mihajlo Vanevic
Professor/associate (additional) Mihajlo Vanevic
ECTS 10 Status (required/elective) optional
Access requirements Condensed Matter Physics B / Theory of Condensed Matter
Aims of the course Introduction to Feynman diagrams in solid state physics.
Learning outcomes Qualifying for the scientific research.
Contents of the course
Lectures Introduction to quantum many-body theory. Quantum field theory at T=0: interaction picture, Green's functions, Feynman diagrams. Dyson equations. Matsubara diagrammatic techniques at finite temperatures. Hartree-Fock approximation and RPA in diagrammatic technique. Fermi liquids in normal and superconducting phases, plasma oscillations, electron-phonon interaction in metals (Migdal theorem)
Examples/ practical classes  
Recommended books
1 A. Abrikosov, L. Gorkov, and I. Dzyaloshinski, Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics (Dover Publ. 1975)
2 E. M. Lifshitz & L. P. Pitaevskii, Statistical Physics, Part 2: Vol. 9 (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1980).
3 R. D. Mattuck, A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem (Dover Publ. 1992.)
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Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
2   2 1  
Teaching and learning methods Lectures and tutorials, problem solving, seminar.
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 10 written examination 40
practicals   oral examination 40
papers      
presentations 10