Prerequisites: graduate standing; PHYS 212B or consent of instructor; PHYS 221C or consent of instructor
Description: PHYS 240A, PHYS 240B, and PHYS 240C are recommended. Topics include elementary excita- tions in many-body systems, critical phenomena and the renormalization group technique, Green’s func- tions and Feynman diagrams, and other field-theory techniques, and advanced topics in condensed mat- ter physics. Students whose research is related to condensed matter physics receive a letter grade; other students receive a letter grade or
Credit: Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grade.