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 excitations in many-body systems, critical phenomena and the renormalization group technique, Green’s functions and Feynman diagrams, and other field-theory techniques, and advanced topics in condensed matter physics.
Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.