Prerequisites: PHYS 212B; PHYS 221C; graduate standing; or consent of instructor
Description: 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.