Course Calendar : Solid state Physics, Physics 489, Spring 2004
3:30 - 4:50 PM., Monday, Wednesday ----- 158 Loomis


Tentative Schedule - May be changed during the semester
Dates for lectures are approximate since the topics do not fit into uniform 1-1/2 hour slots.
Chapters in Aschroft and Mermin are listed. ( Brackets [ ] indicate chapters covered only summarily.)
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
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

Final Exam: 1:30-4:30 PM, Thu, May 13
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