PHY556-2025

PHY 556: Solid State Physics II

Instructor: Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Physics B139, maria.fernandez-serra@stonybrook.edu

Lecture Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00-3:20 pm

Lecture room: B131

Office Hours: By Appts.

Syllabus

Calendar

Day   Lecture
Jan 27   L1
Jan 29   L2
Feb 3   L3
Feb 5   L4
Feb 10   L5
Feb 12   L6
Feb 17   L7
Feb 19   L8
Feb 24   L9
Feb 26   No Lecture
Mar 3   L10
Mar 5   No Lecture
Mar 10   L11
Mar 12   L12
Mar 17   Spring Break
Mar 19   Spring Break
Mar 24   L12
Mar 26   No Lecture
Mar 31   L13
Apr 2   L14
Apr 7   No Lecture
Apr 9   No Lecture
Apr 14   L15
Apr 16   L16
Apr 21   L17
Apr 23   L18
Apr 28   L19
Apr 30   L20
May 5   L21
May 7   L22

Projects

List of Possible Projects

Lectures

W1: Lecture 1-2: Intro and motivation
W2: Lectures 3-4: Hubbard Dimer
W3: Lectures 5-6 : Mean Fields and Auxiliary systems
W4: Lectures 7-9 : Correlation Functions
W5: Lectures 10-11 : Particles and Quasiparticles
W6: Lectures 12-13 : Many Body Pertrubation Theory
W7: Lectures 14-15 : Functionals in Many Particle Physics
W8: Lectures 16-17 : MBPT through Functional Derivatives & Hubbard Dimmer
W9: Lectures 18-19 : RPA and GW
W10: Lectures 20-21 : GW Calculations in Practice
W11: Lecture 22 : Quantum Embedding
  • QEnotes
  • Readings:
    • Interacting Electrons Chapter 16 and 18