Time and location:

• Time: Mon Wed 4:00 - 5:20 p.m.
• Place: 144 Loomis Laboratory

Instructor:

• A.J. Leggett (2113 ESB) Office hour 2.0 - 3.0 p.m. Thur

TA:

• Victor Vakaryuk (4119 ESB) Office hour 2.0 - 3.0 p.m. Wed

• Syllabus and schedule of lectures (provisional)
• Tentative lecture syllabus for second half of course

• Problem sheet 1
• Problem sheet 2
• Problem sheet 3
• Problem sheet 4
• Problem sheet 5
• Problem sheet 6
• Problem sheet 7

• Lecture 4. Localization I: General considerations, one-parameter scaling
• Lecture 5. Weak localization: Quantitative treatment
• Lecture 6. Weak localization: Effects of magnetic fields and spin
• Lecture 7. Effects of interactions in a disordered system
• Lecture 8. Ginzburg-Landau Theory
• Lecture 9. Long-range order in (quasi-) 2D systems
• Lecture 10. The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
• Lecture 11. Statistics and dynamics of the BKT transition
• Lecture 12. Experimental tests of the BKT theory
• Lecture 13. The superconductor-insulator transition in dirty metallic films
• Lecture 14. More on the S-I transition: normal-metallic phase at T = 0
• Lecture 15. Aspects of two-dimensionality in the cuprates
• Lecture 16. The quantum Hall effect: general considerations
• Lecture 17. The integral QHE: Topological considerations, edge states
• Lecture 18. The fractional quantum Hall effect: Laughlin wave function, fractional charge and statistics.
• Lecture 19. Composite fermions: Experimental evidence for fractional charge and statistics
• Lecture 20. The quantum Hall effect: miscellaneous topics
• Lecture 21. Graphene I: Electronic band structure and Dirac fermions
• Lecture 22. Graphene II: Quantum Hall effect
• Lecture 23. Graphene III: Disorder, transport, interactions
• Lecture 24. Topological quantum computation: the general idea
• Lecture 25. The Kitaev models
• Lecture 26. The \nu = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect
• Lecture 27. p + ip Fermi superfluids