This note describes the
following topics: Quantization, Photons, Free electrons, empty lattice
approximation, Metals, Fermi surfaces, Metals, Fermi surfaces, plane wave
method, tight binding, Graphene, carbon nanotubes, photoemission, Semiconductors, Free electrons in a magnetic field , Landau levels, Quantum Hall
Effect, Landau levels, Linear response theory , Optical properties of
insulators, Optical properties of metals, Boltzmann equation, Thermoelectric
effects, Crystal physics, Structural phase transitions / electron screening,
Single-electron effects, Hubbard model, Peierls transition , Landau's theory of
a Fermi liquid, phonons, Ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, Landau theory of phase
transition, Superconductivitys.
This note explains the following topics: Crystal
structure, Wave diffraction and the reciprocal lattice, Crystal binding and
elastic constants, Phonons, Free-electron Fermi gas, Energy bands, Fermi surface
and metals, Semiconductor crystals, Superconductivity, Diamagnetism and
paramagnetism, Ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, Magnetic resonance,
Plasmons, polaritons and polarons, Optical processes and excitons, Dielectrics
and ferroelectrics.
This note explains the following topics: Crystal Structure, X-Ray
Diffraction and Reciprocal Lattice, Crystal Binding, Elastic Properties ,
Lattice Vibrations, Thermal Properties, Free-Electron Model,Electron Transport,
Energy Bands, Electron Dynamics and Fermi Surfaces, Methods for Calculating Band
Structure, Semiconductors, Optical Properties of Solids, Dielectric Properties
of Insulators, Magnetic Properties.
This note covers the following
topics: The electronic structure: tight-binding method and nearly
free-electron model, Comparison of results for tight-binding and nearly-free
electron model, Formalization: Bloch theorem, Phonons in one dimension,
Periodicity, Effect of a basis on the electronic structure, Crystal structures,
The reciprocal lattice, Tight-binding in two dimensions, Optical spectroscopy,
Quantum-mechanical treatment of optical spectroscopy, Relation to absorption,
Thomas-Fermi screening, Ferromagnetism, Antiferromagnetism, Electron-phonon
interaction, Transition temperature, Ginzburg-Landau theory, Flux quantization
and the Josephson effect.
This
note explains the following topics: The solid as quantum system, The homogeneous
electron gas, Lattices and crystals, Electrons in a periodic potential, Lattice
dynamics, Electron Dynamics, Magnetism, Superconductivity, Theory of scattering
from crystals.
This note covers the following topics:Condensed Matter Systems,
Basic Notions of Condensed Matter, Quantum Hamiltonian of Condensed Matter
Physics, Pauli Exclusion Principle for Atoms, Energy Bands and Rigid Band
Filling, Electron-Electron Interactions in Metals , Broken Symmetry States of
Metals and Soft Condensed Matter Phases.
This
note covers the following topics: Crystal Structure, Classifying lattices,
Diffraction and the reciprocal lattice, Scattering of a plane wave by a
crystal, Bragg’s Law, X-Ray Diffraction, Lattice Dynamics, Metals,
Semiconductors.