Physics 284. Strongly correlated systems in atomic and condensed matter physics

• 2018 Syllabus

• Chapter 1. Introduction

• Chapter 2. Atoms in external field. Magnetic and optical trapping of atoms

• Chapter 3. Bose-Einstein condensation of weakly interacting atomic gases

• Chapter 4. Spinor condensates

• Chapter 5. Atoms in optical lattices

• Chapter 6. Bose Hubbard model

• Chapter 7. Quantum magnetism with ultracold atoms in optical lattices

• Chapter 8. Quantum noise measurements as a probe of many-body states

• Chapter 9. Feshbach resonance

• Chapter 11. Fermion pairing close to Feshbach resonance. The BCS-BEC crossover

• Chapter 12. Collective modes in interacting Fermi systems

• Chapter 13. Pairing with spin imbalance

• Chapter 14. Fermionic Hubbard model

• Guest lecture by Takuya Kitagawa. Topological Phases of matter

• Guest lecture by Erez Berg. Luttinger liquids

• Guest lecture by Mikhail Zvonarev. Bethe Ansatz