MIT OpenCourseWare
Many-Body Theory for Condensed Matter Systems
- Instructor
- Prof. Senthil Todadri
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 16 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.513 Many-Body Theory for Condensed Matter Systems, Fall 2004, Prof. Senthil Todadri — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
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- No lecture or session order could be confirmed for this course.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
10 files
- Introduction; Topics of the Course Download
- Identical Particles and Second Quantization; Occupation Number Representation Download
- Creation and Annihilation Operators Download
- Review of Path Integrals for Single Particle QM; Path Integrals and Statistical Mechanics; Evaluation of Imaginary Time Path Integral for SHO Download
- Path Integrals for Many Particle Systems; Coherent State Path Integral; Real Time Path Integral; Superfluidity Download
- The Bose Liquid; Small Fluctuations about the Classical Minimum Download
- Vortices; Superfluid Equations of Motion; Charged Bosons Download
- Quantum Magnetism of Localized Spins; Origin of Exchange in Electronic Insulators; Path Integral for Spin Download
- Quantum Antiferromagnets Download
- Excitations; Brief Introduction to the hiTc Problem Download
Assignments
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Senthil Todadri, 8.513 Many-Body Theory for Condensed Matter Systems, Fall 2004.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2004 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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