The course will introduce basic concepts for the description of electrons in condensed matter from a microscopic many-body approach,
and relate results obtained by quantum field theoretical methods t
Some topics covered in this class are: The Index theorem, solitons, topological band insulators/superconductors, bulk-edge correpondence, quantum anomalies, quantum pumping, symmetry protected topolog
This course introduces quantum mechanics to students who are interested in pursuing quantum science and technology but have not gone through the standard bachelor physics curriculum. The students will