Programma di Teoria Dei Solidi:

  Teoria dei solidi  2010-11  Program   1)Intraduction:Landau Fermi liquids, Mott transition, Ginzburg-Landau theory of phase transitions. Magnetism: mean field –Ising model : Exact solutions . Renormalization approach, Hubbard-Stratonovich   transformation . 2) Fano resonances. Anderson model.  Newns model  of chemisorptions. Kondo effect. Esca. Lunqvist model.Inverse Photoemission. Auger Spectroscopy:   Cini-Sawatzky theory  and extensions , APECS. One Step Model. Low-density methods  applied to the spectra of  transition metals. Hubbard model and magnetism (Lieb theorems, Nagaoka ferromagnetism)   3)Recursion approaches: Lanczos method, method of excitation Amplitudes, Spin disentangled  approach, Howard Lee recurrants.   4) Group representations. Great Orthogonality Theorem. Orthogonality of Characters. Applications to orbitals and vibrations in solids.  Space-time symmetries of Bloch states. Space Groups . Young diagrams . Direct product. Double Groups. Jahn-Teller effects. Vibronic Coupling.   5)Quantum phases- Berry phase,  molecular Aharonov-Bohm effect  and polarization of solids.   6) W=0 pairing in the Hubbard Model and Cuprate Superconductivity.   7)Low-dimensional physics: Bethe ansatz for 1d Heisenberg model.   Nanotubes.  Bosonization and spin-charge separation. Quantum Hall effect.     8)More on Green’s  functions methods:  Inglesfield embedding. Conserving approximations. Ward Identity. Equations of Motion.    Keldysh time-dependent theory.   9) Quantum transport. Landauer formula.  Time dependent formulation of quantum transport.  Magnetic moments of Quantum rings-Transport in Graphene.