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• Please complete the Midsemester course evaluation and return by e-mail. I regret it will not be anonymous but please understand that I truly welcome all comments.
• Thursday, March 12
• Agenda for Monday, March 16
• Recordings of each class will be stored by Zoom and links will be posted under the Announcement section of Canvas. Note that the posting may be delayed up to 24 hours due to overload at Zoom.
• Notes for Wednesday, March 18 Bose-Einstein heat capacity, Fermi-Dirac statistics
• Notes for Friday, March 20 Homework solution 28.1, Bulk moduli
• Notes for Monday, March 23, Nuclear and astrophysical examples
• Notes for Tuesday, March 24, Sommerfeld expansion
• Notes for Wednesday, March 25, code, output, Sommerfeld examples
• Notes for Friday, March 27, Energy bands, Semiconductors (part 1)
• Notes for Monday, March 30, Intrinsic, and doped semiconductors
• Notes for Tuesday, March 31, Stat. Mech. Models
• Notes for Monday, April 6, Midterm solutions, Binary alloy solution, Free BC solution
• Notes for Tuesday, April 7, Exact numerical calculation, code, Periodic BC solution
• Notes for Wednesday, April 8, Transfer matrix susceptibility homework solution, Detailed Balance
• Notes for Friday, April 10, Monte Carlo code and data
• Notes for Monday, April 13, Phase transitions
• Notes for Tuesday, April 14, Correlation function, Mean field theory
• Notes for Wednesday, April 15, Spin-1 Mean Field Theory, High temperature series
• Notes for Friday, April 17, Ising chain susceptibility, 2D high T expansion
• Notes for Monday, April 20, 2D high T expansion (continued)
• Notes for Tuesday, April 21, Low T expansion
• Notes for Wednesday, April 22, Duality, Series analysis, Mathematica notebook Ising2DLowTSeries.nb
• Notes for Friday, April 24, Series coefficient relations, Mathematica notebook Ising2DLowTHighT, Mathematica notebook Ising3DHighT.nb
• Notes for Monday, April 27, Critical exponents, Code, Data
• Notes for Tuesday, April 28, Histogram Monte Carlo, Codes and data
• Notes for Wednesday, April 29, Wang Landau algorithm, Code
• Final exam solutions