• Topics

Exchange Symmetry --- Bosons and Fermions --- 1,2,3,...N particles ----- Permanents and Slater Determinants

Occupation Number and Fock Space --- Creation Annihilation Operators --- Writing States and Operators in 2nd Quantized forms

Free Fermions and Fermi Sea --- Interacting Fermions --- Perturbation Theory and Hartree Fock Approx.

Bosons and BEC --- Spontaneously broken symmetry --- Canonical Transformations and Bogoliubov Theory.

• References

• J. W. Negele and H. Orland, Quantum Many Particle Systems

• A. L. Fetter and J. D. Walecka, Quantum Theory of Many Particle Systems

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture 12

• Lecture 13

• Lecture 14

• Lecture 15

• Lecture 16

• Lecture 17

• Lecture 18