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- Introduction; Topics of the Course (PDF - 1.9 MB)#
- Identical Particles and Second Quantization; Occupation Number Representation (PDF - 2.0 MB)#
- Creation and Annihilation Operators (PDF - 5.6 MB)#
- Review of Path Integrals for Single Particle QM; Path Integrals and Statistical Mechanics; Evaluation of Imaginary Time Path Integral for SHO (PDF - 4.1 MB)#
- Path Integrals for Many Particle Systems; Coherent State Path Integral; Real Time Path Integral; Superfluidity (PDF - 5.7 MB)#
- The Bose Liquid; Small Fluctuations about the Classical Minimum (PDF - 6.0 MB)#
- Vortices; Superfluid Equations of Motion; Charged Bosons (PDF - 5.5 MB)#
- Quantum Magnetism of Localized Spins; Origin of Exchange in Electronic Insulators; Path Integral for Spin (PDF - 8.3 MB)#
- Quantum Antiferromagnets (PDF - 8.1 MB)#
- Excitations; Brief Introduction to the hiTc Problem (PDF - 2.0 MB)#