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\section*{Tentative Syllabus for Many Body Physics }

Many Body Physics (T Th W 9:00-10:20 in room 
202, Coates Hall) is a one-semester advanced course intended for 
second-year physics graduate students.  Several texts can accompany 
this course (please see my course web page for a complete list).  I 
prefer Piers Coleman's on-line text, and will roughly follow his 
exposition.  Please
download it at http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/$\sim$coleman/mbody.html .
I also find that {\em{Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical
Physics}}, by Abrikosov, Gorkov and Dzyaloshinski (AGD, Dover) is an 
excellent reference as is {\em{Quantum Many-Particle Systems}} by Negele 
and Orland (NO, Addison Wesley).  Another useful (and rather formal) reference
is {\em{Quantum Theory of Many Particle Systems}}, by Fetter and Walecka 
(Dover).  You will also find {\em{Many-Particle Physics}}, by Jerry Mahan to be 
useful.    

Lecture videos will also be available on the course web page.

\paragraph{Rough Outline of the Course}
The first few weeks of the course will focus on basics of why we must
abandon first quantized wavefunction based formalism for second
quantization and Green functions. 
The next few weeks will be used to develop the many-body formalism.  Next, 
I plan to illustrate this formalism 
by discussing the usual hierarchy of approximations (RPA, FLEX, parquet,
dynamical mean field, DCA), or the theory of superconductivity, etc.  To
a large extent, the latter part of the course will be driven by the 
research needs of the students.  


\section*{Grading and Important Dates}
The course will be graded on the homework, class participation and the 
presentations.  I encourage you to work together on all assignments, and I 
expect only one homework or class project to be handed in in paper 
format from all of you.  Also, I expect that you will all participate in
homework presentations.  The class presentations should rotate between 
students (so that the same student is not always presenting, etc.) and I
will select one of you to be the lead for each homework/presentation.  

The 2015 calendar is linked on the main course web page.


%\section*{Acknowledgements}
%	I would like to acknowledge useful conversations with:
%Many of these conversations are directly reflected in these notes.  In 
%addition, I especially thank G.~Balchin who authored many of the homework 
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