Christopher Marc Mudry

Teaching & PhD PhD Students Baptiste Paul Eloi Demazure, Arjun Dey, Anthony Bernard Rey Past EPFL PhD Students Yun Yen Courses Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics PHYS-639 Topics covered: Superfluidity in weakly interacting Bose gas, the random phase approximation to the Coulomb interaction in the Jellium model, superconductivity within the random phase approximation, the renormalization group analysis of non-linear-sigma models, the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. Some aspects of topology in condensed matter physics PHYS-638 Some topics covered in this class are: The Index theorem, solitons, topological band insulators/superconductors, bulk-edge correpondence, quantum anomalies, quantum pumping, symmetry protected topological phases and symmetry enriched topological order if time allows.