SUBJECT
Title
Many-particle physics II
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 3
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
- Properties of Bose gases
- Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC)
- Elementary excitations (Bogoliubov’s canonical transformation)
- Temperature dependence of order parameter
- Superfluid Fermi-gases
- Cooper phenomenon
- Bardeen-Cooper-Scriffer (BCS) theory
- Energy gap, critical temperature
- BCS-BEC transition
Readings
recommended readings:
- L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz, Statistical Physics Elsevier, 2013.
- L. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari: Bose–Einstein Condensation, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2003
- A. Griffin: Excitations in a Bose Condensed Liquid, Cambridge N.Y., 1993
- A. L. Fetter, J. D. Walecka: Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems, McGrow-Hill, New York, 1971