Condensed matter

This course is an introduction to solid state physics, ranging from electronic properties to the structure of crystalline materials and models of magnetism.

The goal of this course is to introduce the main concepts and challenges of quantum computing, a new set of technologies and techniques that promise to solve hard computational problems.

Recent years have seen enormous experimental progress in preparing, controlling and probing quantum systems in various regimes far from thermal equilibrium. Examples include systems as ultra-cold atomic quantum gases under time-dependent perturbations, driven non-linear cavity QED systems or strongly correlated electrons in solid-state materials under ultra-fast optical excitations.

This course is about how to describe complex systems using ideas of the renormalization group (‘coarse-graining’) and statistical field theory.