Instructor: Prof. Oskar Vafek E-mail: vafek’at’magnet.fsu.edu Phone: (850) 644-5076 PHY5645 Meeting Times Mon-Wed 2pm-3:15pm (HCB314) Office Hours: Mon 3:45pm-4:45pm (Keen 606) and by appointment Textbooks: (main texts) J. W. Negele and H. Orland, Quantum Many-Particle Systems P.W. Anderson, Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics (useful reference texts) G. D. Mahan, Many-Particle Physics. A.L. Fetter and J.D. Walecka, Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems A.A. Abrikosov, L.P. Gorkov, and I.E. Dzyaloshinski, Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics

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Course Description PHY5670 is a one semester graduate level course. Its aim is to introduce basic concepts, and logical framework, of this vast and developing discipline: broken symmetry and adiabatic continuity. Theoretical techniques, such as coherent state path integrals and diagrammatic perturbation expansions, will be used to emphasize these deeper underlying concepts, as well as to provide practical means of calculations. Few illustrative physical systems and quantum many-body models will also be studied.