Solid State Lecture Coverage
Actual daily topics
Week 1
- Monday, August 27, Classical kinetic theory of electrical conductivity and Hall effect.
- Wednesday, August 29, Electronic density of states and Fermi energy.
- Friday, August 31, Electronic heat capacity.
Week 2
- Monday, Sept. 3, Labor Day, no class
- Wednesday, Sept. 5, Charged particle in B field, Aharanov-Bohm effect (Special guest lecturer, Di Xiao)
- Friday, Sept. 7, Landau levels and quantum Hall effect. Discuss quantum point contact.
Week 3
- Monday, Sept. 10, Pauli paramagnetism and Stoner ferromagnetism
- Wednesday, Sept. 12, AC conductivity
- Friday, Sept. 14, Thermal conductivity of metals. Discuss IQHE paper.
Week 4
- Monday, Sept. 17, Elastic stress and strain. Voigt notation.
- Wednesday, Sept. 19, Elastic stability, bulk and shear modulus, Young and Poisson.
- Friday, Sept. 21, Sound waves. Discuss liquid crystal elasticity paper.
Week 5
- Monday, Sept. 24, Phonons (quanta of sound).
- Wednesday, Sept. 26, Debye model density of states, heat capacity
- Friday, Sept. 28, Phonon anharmonicity and thermal conductivity
Week 6
- Monday, Oct. 1, Ultrasound, Raman and Brillouin scattering. Discuss homework and reading
- Wednesday, Oct. 3, Phenomenology of BCS superconductivity
- Friday, Oct. 5, Midterm exam #1
Week 7
- Monday, Oct. 8, Ginzburg-Landau theory and flux quantization
- Wednesday, Oct. 10, Penetration depth and critical fields
- Friday, Oct. 12, Crystal lattices and atomic structure
Week 8
- Monday, Oct. 15, Bragg's law of diffraction, Fourier transform, Patterson function
- Wednesday, Oct. 17, Reciprocal lattice, lattice with basis
- Friday, Oct. 19, Midsemester break, no class
Week 9
- Monday, Oct. 22, Laue diffraction condition and Brillouin zones. Inelastic neutron scattering
- Wednesday, Oct. 24, Vibrations of one-dimensional chain. Group velocity
- Friday, Oct. 26, Presidential inauguration, no class
Week 10
- Monday, Oct. 29, Diatomic chain, optical phonons
- Wednesday, Oct. 31, Bloch theorem. Linear combination of atomic orbitals
- Friday, Nov. 2, Electronic tight binding 1-D, 2-D, graphene
Week 11
- Monday, Nov. 5, Multi orbital atoms and multi atom chains, band filling
- Wednesday, Nov. 7, Midterm exam #2
- Friday, Nov. 9, Bloch theorem rederived. Nearly free electron model
Week 12
- Monday, Nov. 13, QM perturbation theory. Extended, periodic and reduced zone models.
- Wednesday, Nov. 15, Peierls instability. Jahn-Teller distortion.
- Friday, Nov. 17, Hubbard model
Week 13
- Monday, Nov. 19, Heisenberg exchange. Itinerant (anti)ferromagnetism
- Wednesday, Nov. 21, Thanksgiving break, no class
- Friday, Nov. 23, Thanksgiving break, no class
Week 14
- Monday, Nov. 26, Effective mass, electrons and holes
- Wednesday, Nov. 28, Interacting Fermi gas, Hartree and Fock, Jellium
- Friday, Nov. 30, Exchange and correlation energy, density functional theory
Week 15
- Monday, Dec. 3, Intrinsic and doped semiconductors
- Wednesday, Dec. 5, pn juction devices
- Friday, Dec. 7, no class, Prof. out of town
Final Exam
- Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1-4:00pm, Wean Hall 4709