Intro to Quantum Condensed Matter Physics

Quantum Condensed Matter Physics: Lecture 1

Theoretical physicist Dr Andrew Mitchell presents an advanced undergraduate / introductory Master's level lecture course on Quantum Condensed Matter Physics at University College Dublin. This is a complete and self-contained set of lectures, in which the theory is built up from scratch, and requires only a knowledge of basic quantum mechanics.

In this lecture, I give a basic introduction to the subject. I explain the concepts of collective behavior and emergent phenomena, and discuss the many-body problem in physics. This lecture sets the scene for the rest of the course.

Navigate through the lectures of this course in order using the playlist:

Recommended course textbook: "Many-body quantum theory in condensed matter physics" by Bruss and Flensberg

[georgefan]

Thank you for this. I am a first year applied physics student looking to specialise in nano material physics. Just been going through videos to get an idea of what I will be doing in the future.

[dariuschong]

This is amazing! I'm just a first year physics student but I can't wait to see what's ahead already :)

[sayanjitb]

At 22:03 you did mention that the Hamiltonian for many body quantum system can be exactly known unlike "High energy physics", but as far as I know in the DFT calculation there are some systematic "guess" to construct Hamiltonian and so there is no known exact Hamiltonian available. Can you please bring this to the light!
And also, in Braiding diagram how could you able to label the electrons in their respective initial and final positions?
Thanks

[Somnath-M]

Thank you for these beautiful lectures... I was going thorough the other videos in this playlist.. those are really wonderfull.. But, suddenly you have made the videos private.. now I can't see the remaining two lectures of Hubbard model and topological insulators etc.. Sir please make them public... And waiting for others videos for the first part of the course..

[Petrov]

Truly outstanding — pace, content !!

PS: How do you write on the white “board”?

[moirreym]

I am an absolute beginner to any and everything physics related. Where do you suggest an absolute beginner start for the world of physics, and from that intro point, what should I study after?

[subhamsubba]

It's clear and amazing. Fascinated to know things beyond just deriving the equations. Can we get the pdfs/ppt of these lectures?

[AvnishKumar-sgsj]

Thanks Sir for the wonderful lecture...But @ 52:00, I was unable to comprehend that why for insulators the Fermi level lies inside the bandgap after all it is the highest state that electrons can occupy at 0K?

[jacobvandijk]

As long as we can't handle 'decoherence' quantum computing is a fantasy.

[AriadneG-]

Love the content, most of it is great, honestly my only critique is mentioning philosophies of String “Theory®” as though they were axioms of some sort.

Otherwise, love it