Time and location:

• Time: Monday/Wednesday 1:00 - 2:20pm
• Place: 276Loomis Lab of Physics (LLP)

    Instructor:

• A.J. Leggett (2113 ESB) Office hour TBA

    TA:

• Mao-chuang Yeh Office Hour: 4:00 Fridays, 3rd Floor Common area, Engineering Sciences Building (ESB),

Mao-chuang Yeh TA Office: 3rd Floor Common area, Engineering Sciences Building (ESB) Office Hour: 4:00 Friday     Syllabus

• Lecture 1 Physics in Two Dimensions
• Lecture 2 Some Important (quasi-) 2D systems (including added page 10)
• Lecture 3 Single-particle QM in 1, 2, and 3D (including updated matrix on page 6)
• Lecture 4 Localization I: General considerations
• Lecture 5 Weak localization: Quantitative treatment
• Lecture 6 Effects of magnetic fields and spin (updated date)
• Lecture 7 Effects of interactions in a disordered system (updated date)
• Lecture 8 Ginzburg-Landau theory
• Lecture 9 Long-range order in (quasi-) 2D systems
• Lecture 10 The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
• Lecture 11 Static and dynamics of the BKT transistion
• 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 QHE: general considerations
• Lecture 17 The integral QHE: Topological considerations, edge states (Footnote 4 should be on page 5)
• 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 ν = 5=2 fractional quantum Hall effect
• Lecture 21 The quantum Hall effect: miscellaneous topics
• Lecture 22 Topological insulators: preliminaries
• Lecture 23 Topological insulators: a simple example
• Lecture 24 More on topological insulators: the experimental situation
• Lecture 25 Topological superfluids: Majorana Fermions
• Lecture 26 Topological quantum computation: the general idea
• Lecture 27 The Kitaev models
• Lecture 28 p+ip Fermi superfluids

• Problem Set 1
• Problem Set 2
• Problem Set 3 Due at 1pm on Monday 10 October.