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SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Coherent States PS 1 out
2 Squeezed States PS 2 out
3 Second Quantization
Bosons
4 Bose Condensation
Quasiparticles		 PS 3 out
PS 1 due
5

Bose condensation (continued); Superfluidity, Vortices
6 Fermi Gases
Second Quantization		 PS 4 out
PS 2 due
7 Fermi Liquids
Collective Modes
8 BCS Pairing
Quasiparticles		 PS 5 out
PS 3 due
9 Bogoliubov-de Gennes Equation
10 Quantized Electromagnetic Field
Photons
E & M Vacuum		 PS 6 out
PS 4 due
11 Atoms interacting with an Optical Field
Lamb Shift
12 Casimir Effect PS 7 out
PS 5 due
13 Dicke Superradiance
14

Feynman path intregral

 PS 8 out
PS 6 due
15

Tunneling as dynamics in imaginary time

 PS 9 out
16

Dissipative tunneling (Caldeira-Leggett theory)

 PS 10 out
PS 7, 8 due
17

Particle coupled to environment (tunneling suppression & decoherence)

 PS 11 out
18

Field integral (bosons)

 PS 9 due
19

Field integral (fermions)

 PS 10 due
20

Mean field theory (BCS superconductivity revisited)

 PS 11 due