Course Code
P468
Credit
8
Prerequisite
P306 (Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics)
Total Hours
42 Lectures + 14 Tutorials
Outcome of the Course
This course teaches the students important concepts and applications of many particle quantum mechanics, with the aim to build their background for future research work in this area.
Approval
Syllabus
- The phenomenon of Superconductivity: historical perspective, characteristics, occurrence
- London Equations, Thermodynamics
- Ginzburg Landau Theory, Abrikosov Vortices
- Josephson Effect
- Cooper instability, BCS wave function, gap equation, thermodynamics and magnetic response, Nambu-Gorkov formalism, idea of BCS-BEC crossover.
- Conventional and non-conventional superconductors
- Diamagnetism paramagnetism Ferromagnetism characteristics, Occurrence
- Orbital magnetism, de Haas van Alfen effect, Meissner Effect in superconductor
- Heisenberg Model: ground state, spin waves
- Hubbard Model and itinerant exchange
Reference Books
- Theoryof Superconductivityby J. R. Schrieffer
- Superconductivity of Metals and Alloys by P. G. De Gennes
- Introduction to Superconductivity by M. Tinkham
- QuantumTheoryof Magnetismby R.M.White
- The theory of Magnetismby D. C. Mattis