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2020 / 2021Graduate Schools of Arts & SciencesCourses

Symmetry in Condensed Matter Physics

GRS PY 841

Credits:
4
Graduate Prerequisites:
GRS PY 741 and GRS PY 742; or consent of instructor.

Theories of finite groups and their irreducible representations (Irreps), symmetry projection operators. Product groups and product representations. Crystalline symmetry, symmorphic and non-symmorphic space groups and induction of their Irreps. Spin-1/2 double groups, magnetic color groups. Time-reversal symmetry and co-representations.

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