Time and location:

• Time: Tuesday/Thursday 2:00 - 3:20pm
• Place: 158 Loomis Lab of Physics (LLP)

Instructor:

• A.J. Leggett (2113 ESB) Office hour 4:00p.m. Monday

TA:

• Jitong Yu, 4119 ESB  [office hour: Thursday 4:00]

• Physics_598_PTD_Fall2013_syllabus.pdf UPDATED

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

• Lecture 1 Physics in Two Dimensions (handwritten) (roughly the first two lectures and the first part of the third)
• Lecture 2 Single-Particle QM in 1, 2 and 3D (handwritten) (second half of the third lecture plus a fair amount of related material that was not covered, but which is somewhat relevant to later lectures)
• Lecture 4 Localization I: General considerations, one-parameter scaling
• Lecture 5 Weak localization: Quantitative treatment
• Lecture 6 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 Statics and dynamics of the BKT transition
• Lecture 12 Experimental tests of the BKT theory
• Lecture 13 The S-I 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 FQHE: 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 Topological insulators: preliminaries
• Lecture 22 Topological insulators: a simple example
• Lecture 23 More on topological insulators
• Lecture 24 Topological Superfluids: Majorana Fermions
• Lecture 25 Topological quantum computation: the general idea
• Lecture 26 The Kitaev models
• Lecture 27 The ν = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect
• Lecture 28 p + ip Fermi superfluids