Plans for week 36, September 1-5

Dear all, welcome back to FYS4480/9480.

This week we aim at discussing the following topics:

-Thursday: Second quantization, operators in second quantization and diagrammatic representation. Discussion of Wick's theorem

-Friday: Second quantization and Wick's theorem

Lecture Material and reading suggestions: slides from https://manybodyphysics.github.io/FYS4480/doc/pub/week36/pdf/week36.pdf, handwritten notes and Szabo and Ostlund sections 2.3 and 2.4. The material on Wick's theorem is covered by the whiteboard notes to be discussed on Thursday and Friday.

The third exercise set is at https://github.com/ManyBodyPhysics/FYS4480/blob/master/doc/Exercises/2025/ExercisesWeek36.pdf

The solution to the exercises from week 35 are at https://github.com/ManyBodyPhysics/FYS4480/blob/master/doc/Exercises/2025/AnswersWeek35.pdf

Best wishes to you all