Strongly Correlated Systems in Condensed Matter Physics

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SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Coherent States	PS 1 out
2	Squeezed States	PS 2 out
3	Second Quantization Bosons
4	Bose Condensation Quasiparticles	PS 3 out PS 1 due
5	Bose condensation (continued); Superfluidity, Vortices
6	Fermi Gases Second Quantization	PS 4 out PS 2 due
7	Fermi Liquids Collective Modes
8	BCS Pairing Quasiparticles	PS 5 out PS 3 due
9	Bogoliubov-de Gennes Equation
10	Quantized Electromagnetic Field Photons E & M Vacuum	PS 6 out PS 4 due
11	Atoms interacting with an Optical Field Lamb Shift
12	Casimir Effect	PS 7 out PS 5 due
13	Dicke Superradiance
14	Feynman path intregral	PS 8 out PS 6 due
15	Tunneling as dynamics in imaginary time	PS 9 out
16	Dissipative tunneling (Caldeira-Leggett theory)	PS 10 out PS 7, 8 due
17	Particle coupled to environment (tunneling suppression & decoherence)	PS 11 out
18	Field integral (bosons)	PS 9 due
19	Field integral (fermions)	PS 10 due
20	Mean field theory (BCS superconductivity revisited)	PS 11 due