PHYS 598GTC :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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Week | Date | Lecture | Homework |
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1 | 1/16 |
Groups Theory Refresher Recommended Reading: Dresselhaus Ch 1-2 |
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1/18 | |||
2 | 1/23 |
Group Representations Recommended Reading: Dresselhaus Ch 3 |
(due 2/6) |
1/25 | |||
3 | 1/30 |
Crystallographic Groups and Bloch's Theorem Recommended Reading: Dresselhaus Ch 12, Bradley &Cracknell Chs. 1 and 3 |
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2/1 | |||
4 | 2/6 |
Point and Space Group Representations Recommended Reading: Bradley&Cracknell Ch 4, Dresselhaus Ch 13 |
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2/8 | |||
5 | 2/13 |
Nonsymmorphic Groups and Compatibility Relations Dresselhaus Ch 13.7, Bradley and Cracknell Ch 3.5, Ch 4 |
Homework 2 (due 2/27) |
2/15 | |||
6 | 2/20 |
Time reversal symmetry and corepresentations |
|
2/22 | |||
7 | 2/27 |
Hybrid Wannier Functions |
Homework 3 (due 3/19) |
2/29 | |||
8 | 3/5 |
Wilson Loops and Berry Curvature |
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3/7 | |||
9 | 3/12 |
Spring Break - No Class |
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3/14 | |||
10 | 3/19 |
Tight-Binding Approximation |
Homework 4 (due 4/2)
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3/21 | |||
11 | 3/26 |
1D Inversion-Symmetric Chain |
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3/28 | |||
12 | 4/2 |
The Chern Insulator |
Homework 5 (due 4/16)
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4/4 | |||
13 | 4/9 |
Topological (Crystalline) Insulators |
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4/11 | |||
14 | 4/16 | Symmetry Indicators | |
4/18 | |||
15 | 4/23 |
Final Presentations |
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4/25 | |||
16 | 4/30 | Final Presentations | |