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PART I: Introduction
1 Basic concepts
1.1 What is a quantum phase transition ?
1.2 Quantum versus classical phase transitions
1.3 Experimental examples
1.4 Theoretical models
1.4.1 Quantum Ising model
1.4.2 Quantum rotor model
2 The mapping to classical statistical mechanics: single site models
3 Overview
PART II: Quantum Ising and Rotor Models
4 The Ising chain in a transverse field
5 Quantum rotor models: large N limit
6 The d = 1, O(N ³ 3) rotor models
7 The d = 2, O(N ³ 3) rotor models
8 Physics close to and above the upper-critical dimension
9 Transport in d = 2
PART III: Other Models
10 Boson Hubbard model
11 Dilute Fermi and Bose gases
12 Phase transitions of Fermi liquids
13 Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets
14 Spin chains: bosonization
15 Magnetic ordering transitions of disordered systems, co-authored with T. Senthil
16 Quantum spin glasses