Sample lecture schedule
(based on 25 lectures each
of duration 75 minutes).
- Lecture 1:
Canonical
field quantization1: scalar field.
- Lecture 2:
Canonical
field quantization 2: scalar field.
- Lecture 3:
Dirac
equation 1
- Lecture 4:
Dirac
equation 2
- Lecture 5:
Gauge
symmetries 1: U(1)
- Lecture 6:
Quantization
of EM field in radiation gauge.
- Lecture 7:
EM
field quantization – coherent states.
- Lecture 8:
Density
matrix.
- Lecture 9:
Second
quantization for bosons.
- Lecture 10:
Weakly
interacting Bose gas, low energy excitations.
- Lecture 11:
Second
quantization for fermions.
- Lecture 12:
Weakly
interacting Fermi gas.
- Lecture 13:
Gauge
symmetries 2: SU(2) and SU(3)
- Lecture 14:
Gauge
symmetries 3: symmetry breaking, Goldstone bosons, Higgs mechanism.
- Lecture 15:
Special
topics.
- Lecture 16:
Special
topics.
- Lecture 17:
Interaction
of radiation with atoms 1.
- Lecture 18:
Interaction
of radiation with atoms 2.
- Lecture 19:
Rayleigh
and Thomson scattering.
- Lecture 20:
Microscopic
theory of dielectric function
- Lecture 21:
Microscopic
theory of magnetism 1: exchange coupling, Hubbard model.
- Lecture 22:
Microscopic
theory of magnetism 2: Heisenberg model, spin waves.
- Lecture 23:
Nonlinear
materials 1: multiphoton processes.
- Lecture 24:
Nonlinear
materials 2: Raman scattering.
- Lecture 25:
Special
topics.
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