Solid State Lecture Coverage
Week 1
- Monday, Feb. 1, Classical kinetic theory of electrical conductivity, Drude model (Simon, ch. 3.1.1) Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, Feb. 3, Electrons in magnetic field, cyclotron resonance, Hall effect (Simon, ch. 3.1.2) Lecture Notes
- Friday, Feb. 5, Quantum electrons, Density of states (Simon, ch. 4.1, Kittel, ch. 6) Lecture Notes
Week 2
Week 3
- Monday, Feb. 15, Langevin paramagnetism and Curie-Weiss ferromagnetism Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, Feb. 17, HW #2 due start of class; HW discussion Pauli paramagnetism and Stoner ferromagnetism (Simon, ch. 4.3, Kittel, ch. 11) Lecture Notes
- Friday, Feb. 19, Landau levels and the integer quantum Hall effect (Kittel, ch. 9) Lecture Notes
Week 4
- Monday, Feb. 22, Thermal transport (Simon, ch. 3.2) Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, Feb. 24, HW #3 due start of class; Elastic stress and strain (Kittel, ch. 3) Lecture Notes
- Friday, Feb. 26, Sound waves Lecture Notes
Week 5
- Monday, March 1, Phonons (quanta of sound) (Simon, ch. 2) Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, March 3, HW #4 due start of class; Debye model density of states, heat capacity Lecture Notes
- Friday, March 5, Midterm #1 (take home)
Week 6
- Monday, March 8, Thermal conductivity of insulators (Kittel, ch. 5) Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, March 10, HW #5 due, Raman and Brillouin scattering. Lecture Notes
- Friday, March 12, Phenomenology of BCS superconductivity (Kittel, ch. 10) Lecture Notes
Week 7
- Monday, March 15, Ginzburg-Landau theory and flux quantization Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, March 17, HW #6 due, Vibrations of one dimensional chain (Simon, ch. 9) Lecture Notes
- Friday, March 19, Midsemester break, no class,
Week 8
- Monday, March 22, Diatomic chain (Simon ch. 10) Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, March 24, HW #7 due. Molecular orbitals, covalent bond (Simon ch. 6.2) Lecture Notes
- Friday, March 26, Tight-binding model in 1D, effective mass, density of states (Simon, ch. 11.1-2) Lecture Notes
Week 9
- Monday, March 29, Band filling, metallic bond (Simon, ch. 11.3) Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, March 31, Diatomic chain, Peierls distortion (Simon, problems 11.2 and 11.8) Lecture Notes
- Friday, April 2, Electronic transport. Tight-binding in 2D (Simon, problems 11.7 and 11.9) Lecture Notes
Week 10
- Monday, April 5, Break day, no class
- Wednesday, April 7 (prerecorded), Hubbard model of H2 molecule, Mott antiferromagnetism (Simon, ch. 23) Lecture Notes
- Friday, April 9, Crystal lattices and atomic structure (Simon, ch. 12) Lecture Notes
Week 11
- Monday, April 12, Bragg diffraction (Simon, ch. 13) Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, April 14, Diffraction as Fourier transform, reciprocal lattice (Simon, ch. 14) Lecture Notes
- Friday, April 16, Spring Carnival, no class
Week 12
- Monday, April 19, Form factors. Laue condition Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, April 21, Midterm exam #2
- Friday, April 23, Quantum perturbation theory (Simon, ch. 15) Lecture Notes
Week 13
- Monday, April 26, Nearly free electrons Lecture Notes
- Wednesday, April 28 (prerecorded), Fermi surfaces (Simon, ch. 16) Lecture Notes
- Friday, April 30, Electrons and holes (Simon, ch. 17, Ashcroft & Mermin, ch. 15)) Lecture Notes
Week 14
Final Exam