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Theoretical physicists working at a blackboard collaboration pod in the Beecroft building.
Credit: Jack Hobhouse

Siddharth Parameswaran

Professor of Physics

Research theme

  • Fields, strings, and quantum dynamics
  • Quantum materials
  • Quantum optics & ultra-cold matter

Sub department

  • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

Research groups

  • Condensed Matter Theory
sid.parameswaran@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 273968
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, room 70.29
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Departmental Teaching

In the 2025-26 academic year, I am slated to give the first 9 lectures of the C6 Theoretical Physics option, covering path integrals for quantum mechanics and the basics of stochastic processes and Brownian motion (in early Michaelmas term). In Hilary Term, I will give a series of 16 lectures on "Quantum Matter II: Quantum Fluids", covering some of the most striking aspects of macroscopic quantum coherence: superfluidity, superconductivity, and their underpinnings in Landau's theory of Fermi liquids.

Between 2022-25, I gave the final 20 lectures for A3 Quantum Mechanics, usually referred to as the "Further Quantum Mechanics" series.

In 2021-22, I gave a series of ~20 lectures on "Quantum Matter II: Life After Landau" in the Oxford MMathPhys programme. This covered modern topics in quantum condensed matter physics that depart from Landau's hugely successful paradigms for understanding metallic and ordered states and phase transitions, and included material such as renormalization-group techniques, Luttinger liquid physics, and competing orders.

Between 2019-21, I was the Michaelmas Term lecturer for the C6 theoretical physics option for MPhys students. The lectures covered path integrals, many-body quantum mechanics,  Landau theory, and stochastic processes, and 20 of these lectures also constituted the Advanced Quantum Theory course in the Oxford MMathPhys programme.

College Teaching

I am a Tutorial Fellow of Hertford College. While the topics I tutor vary from year to year, papers I have covered include

  • 1st year Complex Numbers and Linear Algebra (CP3)
  • 2nd year Statistical/Thermal physics (A1)
  • 2nd year Electromagnetism (A2)
  • 2nd year Mathematical Methods and Quantum Mechanics (A3)
  • 3rd year Fluid dynamics (B1)
  • 3rd year Atomic Physics (B3)
  • 3rd year General relativity (B5)
  • 3rd year Condensed Matter (B6)

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