These lecture notes are handwritten, and broken up by topic rather than lecture.
- Introduction; Topics of the Course (
PDF - 1.9 MB)
- Identical Particles and Second Quantization; Occupation Number Representation (
PDF - 2.0 MB)
- Creation and Annihilation Operators (
PDF - 5.6 MB)
- Review of Path Integrals for Single Particle QM; Path Integrals and Statistical Mechanics; Evaluation of Imaginary Time Path Integral for SHO (
PDF - 4.1 MB)
- Path Integrals for Many Particle Systems; Coherent State Path Integral; Real Time Path Integral; Superfluidity (
PDF - 5.7 MB)
- The Bose Liquid; Small Fluctuations about the Classical Minimum (
PDF - 6.0 MB)
- Vortices; Superfluid Equations of Motion; Charged Bosons (
PDF - 5.5 MB)
- Quantum Magnetism of Localized Spins; Origin of Exchange in Electronic Insulators; Path Integral for Spin (
PDF - 8.3 MB)
- Quantum Antiferromagnets (
PDF - 8.1 MB)
- Excitations; Brief Introduction to the hiTc Problem (
PDF - 2.0 MB)