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
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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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