P451 Advanced Solid State Physics
- Introduction to Fermi liquid theory, quasiparticle, spectral function properties and metal to insulators transitions. Idea of non Fermi liquid metals.
- Local moment formation and suppression in metals.
- Collective excitations: screening and plasma oscillations, spin waves and magnons.
- Electrical and optical properties of Fermi liquid metals and Mott insulators
- Charge impurity in a metal and Friedel oscillation
- Magnetic impurity in a metal: quenching of local moments (Kondo effect)