Course

Review of classical statistical mechanics; introduction to quantum phase transitions

No cloning, the von Neumann measurement model, Orthodoxy and the measurement problem, EPR-Bohm

The FLRW metric of the universe, geodesics, the first Friedmann equation

Overview of the course; local quantum systems; the thermodynamic limit; graph theory; the quantum Ising model

Introduction.  Basic Phenomenology of quantum theory with interferometers (interference, Elitzur-Vaidman bomb).  Postulates of quantum theory.

Introduction: A history of observational cosmology, maximally symmetric space

Spontaneous symmetry breaking, Higgs mechanism

Renormalization of non-abelian gauge theory

Quantization of non-abelian gauge theory, Faddeev-Popov determinant, ghosts