Pedagogy

For the general public:

  • Here is a talk entitled “Quantum physics in crystals: spins, magnetism, and entanglement” at the KITP Teacher’s conference entitled “What’s in a crystal? A quantum universe!”. It is aimed at high school teachers. From April 2023.
  • I gave a talk about “Quantum materials” to the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit. Here is a pdf.
  • You can see my public lecture, “Strange stuff: a second quantum revolution” on youtube.  You can also download a pdf of the slides.

Course notes from UCSB classes:

  • Here are some lecture notes from a one quarter class in 2015 on Quantum Many Body Physics (Physics 217A).  They try to take a modern view on universal properties of phases of matter, connections to quantum information and entanglement, etc. They discuss mainly many body physics of bosons and spins.
  • Here are lecture notes from the second quarter of the same sequence, Physics 217B. This quarter focuses on fermions. Topics include topology, Chern-Simons theory and fractional quantum Hall effect, Fermi liquid theory and renormalization group, and superconductivity.
  • These are lecture notes from the first quarter of Condensed Matter Physics (Physics 223A). A few somewhat unusual topics are included: the stability of matter, space groups and practical applications of Wyckoff positions, a fairly detailed discussion of Berry phases and their effects, and Chern and Z2 topological insulators. 

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