Boulder School 2008: Lecture Notes

Shankar

• RG for Fermions, Part I (June 30) [Outline]
• RG for Fermions, Part II (July 2)
• RG for Fermions, Part III (July 7)
• When You Come to a Fork in the Road Take It: Yogi Berra’s Guide to the Quantum World (Public Lecture (July 9))

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Renormalization Group for Fermions I
• Renormalization Group for Fermions II
• Renormalization Group for Fermions III

Mitrovic

• NMR, Part I (June 30)
• NMR, Part II (July 4)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• NMR Formalism and Techniques I
• NMR Formalism and Techniques II

Le Hur

• One-dimensional Quantum Physics (June 30)
• Dimensional Crossovers, Exotic SC, and Challenges in 2D (July 1)
• Low-dimensional Dirac Fermions: Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene (July 2)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Low-Dimensions I
• 1D-2D Dimensional Crossovers
• Carbon Materials

Radzihovsky

• Cold Atoms Theory (July 1)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Resonant Atomic Gases

D. Jin

• Cold Atoms Experiments, Part I (July 1)
• Cold Atoms Experiments, Part II (July 3)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Cold Atom Experiment I
• Cold Atom Experiment II

Mostovoy

• Models of Strongly Correlated Systems (July 2)
• Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials (July 4)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Spin Orbital Exchange in Mott Instulator
• Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics

Bourbonnais

• Organics, Part I (July 3) - large
• Organics, Part II (July 4)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Organics I
• Organics II

Ong

• Quasiparticle charge and heat transport in d-wave superconductors (July 7)
• The Nernst effect in vortex liquid state (July 9)
• Magnetization experiments in cuprates (July 10)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Quasiparticle in d-wave superconductor
• Nernst Effect and Vortex Liquid in Cuprates

Balents

• Frustrated Magnetism, Part I (July 7)
• Frustrated Magnetism, Part II (July 8) [Frustrated Magnetism, IIb]
• Frustrated Magnetism, Part III (July 11)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Frustrated Magnets I
• Frustrated Magnets II
• Frustrated Magnets III

Coleman

• Heavy Fermions and Local Moments: Heavy Fermions and Landau Fermi Liquid Theory (pp. 100-105) - July 8 [Notes]
• Heavy Fermions and Local Moments: Local Moments and the Kondo Effect (pp. 105-113) - July 9 [Notes]
• Heavy Fermions and Local Moments: Mean Field Theory for the Kondo Lattice (pp. 114-121) - July 10 [Notes]

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Landau Fermi Liquid and Heavy Fermion
• Heavy Fermion - Anderson and Kondo Model
• Heavy Fermion Physics III

Senthil

• Exotic Phases and Unconventional Quantum Criticality, Part I (July 8)
• Exotic Phases and Unconventional Quantum Criticality, Part II (July 10)
• Exotic Phases and Unconventional Quantum Criticality, Part III (July 11)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Exotic Quantum Phases I
• Exotic Quantum Phases II
• Exotic Quantum Phases III

Armitage

• ‘Optical’ Spectroscopies of Correlated Systems: Formalism and Techniques (July 11)
• ‘Optical’ Spectroscopies of Correlated Systems: Examples and Advanced Analysis (July 14)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Optical Spectroscopy I
• Optical Spectroscopy II

Keimer

• Neutron and X-ray Spectroscopies of Correlated Systems: Formalism and Techniques (July 14)
• Neutron and X-ray Spectroscopies of Correlated Systems: Examples (July 16)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Neutron and X-ray Spectroscopy I
• Neutron and X-ray Spectroscopy II

Dessau

• Photoemission (July 14)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• ARPES I

Millis

• Oxide Heterostructures Theory, Part I (July 15) [notes]
• Oxide Heterostructures Theory, Part II (July 16) [notes]
• Oxide Heterostructures Theory, Part III (July 17)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Surfaces and Interfaces I
• Surfaces and Interfaces II
• Surfaces and Interfaces III

Kotliar

• Mean Field Theories of Electronic Structure of Correlated Electron Systems: from DFT to DMFT, Part I (July 16)
• Mean Field Theories of Electronic Structure of Correlated Electron Systems: from DFT to DMFT, Part II (July 18)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Introduction to LDA and DMFT I
• Introduction to LDA and DMFT II

Canfield

• Iron Arsenic Based Superconductors (July 15)
• The 17 Position Knob (July 17)
• An Experimentalists Guide to Superconductivity (July 18)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• FeAs Based Superconductor
• Rare Earth Materials
• Experimentalists Guide to Superconductivity

Yazdani

• STM, Part I (July 17)
• STM, Part II (July 18)

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy I
• STM on high-TC Superconductor

Clark

Wing-Ho Ko Notes

• Pedagogical Introduction to QMC