Course Syllabus pdf file

Background material readings

Reading 1 : More is different

Reading 2 : On the nature of research in condensed state physics

Reading 3 : Electronic society

Reading 4 : Richard Feynman and the history of superconductivity

Lecture notes

Lecture 1 : Fundamentals of statistical mechanics

Lecture 2 : Entropy, temperature

Lecture 3 : Free energy, Gibbs distributions etc

Lecture 4 : Quantum statistics

Lecture 5 : Solutions to 1D Ising models

Lecture 6 : Mean field solutions to Ising models

Lecture 7 : The Onsager solution to 2D Ising model

Lecture 8 : Correlation functions of Ising model

Lecture 9 : Elementary operator identities of bosonization

Lecture 10 : Continous field theory———Ginsberg-Landau free energy

Lecture 11 : The scaling hypothesis

Lecture 12 : Real space RG———Kadanoff's picture

Lecture 13 : 4-epsilon expansion: momentum space RG(I)——Gaussian

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