| Date | Hmwk. | Lec. | Subject of Lecture | A&M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | # | Ch. | ||
| 1/21 | 1 | 1 | Introduction -- Overview of Course Background - Brief review of relevant statistical and quantum mechanics |
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| Part I. Electron Liquid in Condensed Matter | ||||
| 1/26 | 2 | Quantum Theory of Electrons in Metals | 2 | |
| 1/28 | 2 | 3 | Drude Theory of Transport in Metals | 1,3 |
| Part II. Structures of Crystals | ||||
| 2/2 | 4 | Crystal Lattices | 4,[7] | |
| 2/4 | 3 | 5 | Reciprocal lattice | 5 |
| 2/9 | 6 | Determination of Crystal Structures | 6 | |
| 2/11 | 4 | 7 | Cohesion of Solids | 19,20 |
| Part III. Vibrations of Nuclei in Crystals | ||||
| 2/16 | 8 | Lattice Vibrations I: Harmonic Vibrations in 1D Crystals | 21,22 | |
| 2/18 | 5 | 9 | Lattice Vibrations II: 2 and 3D Crystals | 21,22 |
| 2/23 | 10 | Quantization of Lattice Vibrations; Thermal properties | 23 | |
| 2/25 | 11 | Measuring Phonon Dispersion Curves; Anharmonicity | 24, 25 | |
| Part IV. Electrons in Crystals | ||||
| 3/1 | 12 | Quantum States for a particle in a periodic potential | 8 | |
| 3/3 | 6 | 13 | Electrons in weak potentials | 9 |
| 3/8 | 14 | Electrons in strong potentials | 10 | |
| 3/10 | 15 | Examples of electronic bands; experimental measurements | 15,18 | |
| 3/15 | 7 | 16 | Methods for calculations of electronic bands MidTerm Exam - material through Lecture 14 - part of class period - part take home |
11 |
| 3/17 | 17 | Density functional theory: Kohn-Sham equations - examples of results | [17], notes | |
| 3/22-24 | No Class - Spring Break | |||
| Part V. Fermi Surfaces and Electron Transport | ||||
| 3/29 | 8 | 18 | Semiclassical Dynamics of Electrons; Hall Effect | 12, [13] |
| 3/31 | 19 | Measuring the Fermi Surface; Magnetic fields and quantum effects; Fermi liquid theory | 14, [17] | |
| 4/5 | 20 | Quantized Hall Effect | notes | |
| 21 | Electron Dynamics: Optical Properties of metals and insulators (Insulators are not inert!) | notes | ||
| Part VI. Semiconductors | ||||
| 4/7 | 22 | Homogeneous Semiconductors: Statistics, Carriers | 28 | |
| 4/12 | 9 | 23 | Inhomogeneous Semiconductors: Junctions, Devices | 29 |
| Part VII. Strongly Correlated Electrons in Condensed Matter | ||||
| 4/14 | 24 | Strongly-interacting electrons in atomic-like localized states: Transition Metal and Rare Earth compounds | 31 | |
| 4/19 | 10 | 25 | Localized magnetic moments: Kondo effect - High Temperature Superconductors | 32, notes |
| 4/21 | NO CLASS - NO OFFICE HOURS | |||
| Part VIII. Cooperative Phenomena | ||||
| 4/26 | 26 | Magnetic Order | 32,33 | |
| 4/28 | 27 | Superconductivity | 34 | |
| 5/3 | 27 | Superconductivity - continued | 34 | |
| 5/5 | 28 | Review of Course |