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Quantum (field) theory of many-body systems

Xiao-Gang Wen

Annoucement

Class handouts
• Syllabus
• This course is based on a book "Quantum Field Theory of Many-body Systems", which is going to be published by Oxford University Press around the end of this year. All the problems in the problem sets are from the book. Here is the section listing and the problems from the book (pdf).
• Problem set #1 (9/4/02)
• Problem set #2 (9/9/02)
• Problem set #3 (9/16/02)
• Problem set #4 (9/25/02) Solution
• Problem set #5 (9/30/02) Solution of 3.3.5
• Problem set #6 (10/8/02) Solution
  In problem 3, you only need to calculate the induced spin up to an O(1) coefficient.
• Problem set #7 (10/16/02) Solution
• Problem set #8 (10/21/02) Solution
  Here is the experiment that motivated the problem 4.1.7 (pdf)
• Problem set #9 (10/28/02) Solution
• Problem set #10 (11/04/02) Solution
• Problem set #11 (11/18/02)
• Problem set #12 (11/25/02)
• Chapter 5 and 6 of the book.
• Problem set #13 (12/04/02)