CMP-PhD+

CMP-PhD+ Lectures 2023

Correlated Electron Systems

Sven Friedemann (5 hours)

3.29 Physics, Bristol

Fermi liquid theory; Electron phonon effects; Non-Fermi liquid effects; RKKY / Kondo effect in normal metals; Kondo lattice; Doniach model; Heavy Fermion materials; Quantum phase transitions.
Tues 07/02/23 14:00 – 16:20 (with 20′ break) recording #1 recording #2
Tues 21/02/23 cancelled
Tues 28/02/23 14:00 – 16:20 (with 20′ break) recording #3
Tues 07/03/23 14:00 – 15:00 recording #4
Sides #0 Sides #1Sides #2 Slides #3 Slides #4 Slides #5

Quantum Optics

Peter Mosley/Alex Davis (4 hours)

online, Bath

Photon statistics, generating quantum states of light, entanglement, Hong-Ou-Mandel interference, light-matter interactions, introduction to quantum information.
Tues 14/02/23 14:15 – 16:15 (with 20′ break) recording 
Tues 28/02/23 15:15 – 16:05 recording
Tues 28/03/23 14:15 – 15:05 Zoom Link 
Electronic Structure Simon Crampin

online, Bath

Motivation; Quantities of interest; Basic aspects including Born Oppenheimer; Effective single-particle approaches: Hartree, Hartree-Fock; Density functional theory: Hohenberg-Kohn theorem; Kohn-Sham scheme; Practical aspects: LDA, LSDA, GGA, TDDFT, LDA+U; Ideal solids: periodicity; Bloch’s theorem; NFE energy bands, Fermi surface, density of states; Tight binding / LCAO orbitals approach; Surfaces, defects and nanostructures; Ab-initio methods: pseudopotentials, APW.
14/03/23 14:15 – 16:15 (with 20′ break)
21/03/23 14:15 – 16:15 (with 20′ break)
28/03/23 16:15 – 17:05 recording 
Symmetry and Order  Daniel Wolverson

online, Bath

Group theory, rearrangement theorem, cyclic groups and conjugate elements; Group representations, matrix notations, great orthogonality theorem; Character tables, derivation and use; Vibrations of molecules, transitions; Crystal field theory, octahedral crystal field.
17/04/23 10:15-12:15 (with 20′ break) recording #1
24/04/23 10:15-12:15 (with 20′ break) recording #2
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