PHYS 8320-Spring 2012
Instructor: Paul Fendley
Syllabus
Book Outline
Book Chapters
Chapter 1 :
Classical spin systems, order and disorder, introducing the Ising model
and solving the 1d case, the transfer matrix, the Peierls argument
Chapter 2 (in progress): The quantum/classical
correspondence, the Ising Hamiltonian
Chapter 3: Quantum spin systems, su(2) symmetry
Chapter 4 (in progress): The 1+1 dimensional Ising
model: the low- and high-temperature expansions, duality, solving it
using free fermions
Chapter 5 (in progress): The XXZ chain and
the six-vertex model
A
later chapter::
A Conformal Field Theory Primer (my Princeton summer school lecture notes)