Effective field theory and many-body theory

Effective field theory and many-body theory

Instructor:

Achim Schwenk
S2|11 205, Tel. -21550
Office hour/help room: Wednesday 2-3pm, starting April 29

This course will give an introduction to effective theories and the physics of many-body systems, with special attention to modern concepts and to applications ranging from cold atoms to nuclei, neutron stars and condensed matter systems.

Outline

0. Organizational matters
   
1. Nuclear forces: scattering and bound states
   Lecture April 24
   Lecture April 28
   Lecture May 5
   
2. Low resolution: pionless effective field theory (EFT)
   Lecture May 12
   Lecture May 15
   Lecture May 19
   Lecture May 22
   Lecture May 26
   Lecture June 2
   
3. Many-body ingredients for strong interacting systems
   Lecture June 5
   Lecture June 9
   Lecture June 16
   Lecture June 19
   
4. Many-body approaches
   Lecture June 19
   Lecture June 23
   Lecture June 26
   Lecture June 30
   Lecture July 3
   Lecture July 7
   Lecture July 10
   Lecture July 14
   
5. Last lecture on the physics of the unitary Fermi gas
   
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