Siddhartha Lal: Courses taught at IISER Kolkata
Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
Fermi Liquid Theory (many-body perturbation theory, RG approach, Luttinger’s theorem and some insights on non-Fermi liquids)
Disorder and Localization Physics (weak localisation, scaling theory of gang-of-four)
Superconductivity (Ginzburg-Landau phenomenology and BCS theory)
Advanced Statistical Mechanics
Introduction to Phase Transitions, Classification and some popular models that are studied
Mean Field theory (Curie-Weiss, Bogolyubov, Exact solution in infinite dimensions, Ginzurg-Landau)
A tour of some exactly solvable models
Symmetry breaking, and Fluctuations
Anomalous dimensions and Scaling
Introductory Quantum Mechanics
The concept of wave function, Postulates of quantum mechanics, introduction to operators and eigenvalues. Simple solvable problems
Calculation of probabilities and expectation values, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Wave packets and motion in quantum mechanics, free particle wave packets, Scattering and tunneling.
Angular momentum: orbital angular momentum, commutation relations and compatibility. Solution of 3D Schrdinger equation, the hydrogen atom, Spin angular momentum.
A few extra topics (e.g., two spin Heisenberg problem, particle on a circle, particle in a double well, the Landau problem).
Physics Laboratory IV
Modern Physics
Electrical and Electronics
Optics