PHYS 211C: Solid-State Physics III

Lecture Notes

• Fermi liquids: motivation and general introduction
• Landau's ansatz for quasiparticle energy
• Thermodynamics and effective mass in Landau theory
• Zero sound
• Anderson model and criterion for local moment
• Mean field for single impurity Kondo model
• Renormalization for single impurity Kondo model
• Heavy Fermi liquids
• Lieb-Schultz-Mattis-Oshikawa arguments
• Quantum magnetism-1
• Quantum magnetism-2