Announcements
- Midterm will take place on Thursday, April 29, 10:10 am — 12:10 pm. Closed book. No electronic device except a hand-held calculator. A formula sheet will be provided. 期中考试：周四, 4月29日上午，10:10—12:10。闭卷，不允许使用电子设备，除了电子计算器. 将提供一份“参考公式”.
- Office hours on March 30, Tuesday: 1:30 — 2:30 pm, due to a previously unscheduled meeting. If you need a discussion and cannot make it during this period, write to Ji Feng for individual appointment.
General information
- Instructor: Professor Ji Feng 冯济 教授 (jfeng11@pku.edu.cn).
- Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday 10:10 am — 12:00 pm, Science Instruction Building 307 理科教学楼(黄庭芳楼) 307.
- Office hours: 2:00–4:00 pm, W574 School of Physics 物理学院西楼574.
- Teaching assistants: 庄钰晨(yuchenzhuang@pku.edu.cn), 陈亦林(yilinchenpku@pku.edu.cn).
- Homework: problem sets will be assigned roughly biweekly.
- Exams: there will be a midterm exam and a final exam.
Textbook and references
- Textbook: Modern Condensed Matter Physics. Girvin & Yang (Cambridge University Press 2019).
General references and supplemental readings:
- Solid State Physics. Ashcroft and Mermin (Cengage Learning 1976).
- Quantum Theory of Solids. Kittel (John Wiley & Sons 1987).
- Statistical Physics II. Lifshitz and Pitaevskii (Butterworth-Heinemann 1985).
- 《固体理论》. 李正中 ( 第二版，高等教育出版社 2002).
Course Materials
Notes
- Syllabus
- Symmetry and Noether’s theorem
- Symmetry breaking and Goldstone modes
- Band structure and methods (script)
- Semiclassical dynamics
- Localization and scaling theory (slides)
- Topology of Bloch bands
- BEC and superfluidity
Supplemental reading
- Kittel Ch. 4: Magnon (spin wave theory)
- 李正中 《磁振子》
- Kittel Ch. 9: Bloch functions
- Fu06, Fu07
- A video of superfluid He-II