| 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 |
