PHYSICS 140B

Main Course

Quantum States of Matter

Description

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 112, 115A. Recommended: courses 115B, 115C, 140A. Introduction to various phases of matter that exhibit quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale. Topics may include superconductivity, superfluidity, magnetism, density waves, and the integer quantum Hall effect. Landau's phenomenological theory of symmetry-breaking phase transitions, including the application of Ginzburg-Landau theory to superconductivity. Letter grading.

Prerequisites

• Required: PHYSICS 112

  Plan

  Taken?
• Required: PHYSICS 115A

  Plan

  Taken?