ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Applied Physics
Areas: Electromagnetism
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
This subject argues the fundamental concepts for understanding the effects due to electronic correlations that are the base for the appearance of collective phenomena in the matter. They are objective specific:
- Familiarize the student with the concept of quasiparticle and of the simplest collective state: Fermi liquid.
- Understanding the concept of correlation and its implications in the electrical and magnetic properties of the matter.
1. Hubbard Model. Metal-Insulator Transitions: Anderson and Mott. Antiferromagnétic, ferromagnetic, metallic, insulater and supercondutor phases.
2. Integer and Fractionary Hall Quantum Effects. Chern-Simons Topological Model of the Electrodynamics. Electrons as strongly correlated quasi partícules.
3. Topological Insulators and graphene. Topological structure of the bands: Krammer's theorem. Quantum Spin Hall Efect. Efective relativistic effects.
Basic bibliography:
- P. Fazekas, “Lecture notes on electron correlation and magnetism”, World Scientific (2003).
Complementary bibliography:
- Piers Coleman, “Introduction to many-body physics”, downloadable from the author's website: http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~coleman/620/mbody/pdf/bkx.pdf
- M. Sigrist, “Solid State Theory”, downloadable class notes from the author's website: http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/education/fs13/sst/Lecture-Notes.pdf
- M. P. Marder, “Condensed matter physics”, John Wiley & Sons (2000).
- G. Grosso, G. P. Parravicini, “Solid state physics”, Academic Press (2000).
- P. L. Taylor, O. Heinonen, “A quantum approach to condensed matter physics”, Cambridge Press (2002).
- G. D. Mahan, “Condensed matter in a nutshell”, Princeton University Press (2011).
- A. Auerbach, “Interacting electrons and quantum magnetism”, Springer-Verlag (1994).
- Shun-Qing Shen,Topological Insulators :Dirac Equation in CondensedMatters, Springer-Verlag (2012)
- Bernavig B. Andrei, Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors, Universitiy Princenton Press (2013)
In this subject the student shall acquire and practise a series of basic competitions, desirable in any basic degree, and specific competencies in the field of strongly correlated electron systems and its implications in basic science and technology. There will be specific competencies:
- Understand the concept of quasiparticle and its application to the collective states of metals.
- Understand the magnetism as a collective quantum phenomenon.
- Understand the limits of itinerant and localized magnetism.
- Handle the basic concepts of a Hubbard model applied to a metal-insulator transition
The teaching activities will be of several types: theory classes, seminars (both on the board and using the available computational resources), problem solving classes. The participation of the student will be essential in the seminars and problem soving classes. Likewise, students will have office hours at their disposal for the individual discussion of all the doubts that arise on the content of the subject.
OBSERVATIONS due to the new situation of the Covid-19.
If we could not have face-to-face classes then Teams or other means will be used to try to replace them as best we can. In this case we will always go next to Blundell's first reference and also to his exercises.
1. PRESENTIAL. This is the fundamental and that is expected to have to achieve well the proposed objectives.
2. HALF-PRESENTIAL. In this case, it will be presented in the Virtual Secretariat and in the material of the teams that can replace deficiencies as much as possible.
3. NOT PRESENTIAL. Without a doubt this case is the worst and will have to be replaced by doing many more personal exercises for the students and following the difficulties of knowledge.
The attendance to the classes will be mandatory and the evaluation will be continuous. It will be based on solving exercises and/or the realisation of a monographic work on a subject from the recent bibliography of interest for the course.
Activity Weight in the global note
Problems sets Until 70%
Monographic work Until 30%
There will be also an examination in the date scheduled by the deanship for those students that do not pass the continuous evaluation or want to increase their mark.
OBSERVATIONS due to the new situation of the Covid-19.
The evaluation in any case will be continuous and the students will have to do exercises of each subject that finally will give the final qualification.
Theory Seminar. Practical Office hours Personal work and other act. Total work of student
20 10 -- 1 44 75
To know Solid State Physics, Quantum Mechanics and it would be very good a basic of Quantum Field Theory.
At the time of approving this teaching program, thinking of a possible scenario 2 or 3 due to the Covid-19, the process of requesting and acquiring new electronic bibliographic material is underway; therefore, the bibliographic material available for this subject will be informed at the time on the Virtual Campus
Daniel Baldomir Fernandez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Electromagnetism
- Phone
- 881813969
- daniel.baldomir [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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