Lecture Notes

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Lecture presentation on an explicit solution of the Bloch equation, energy bands, the Brillouin zone, Fermi surfaces, energy of molecules and solids, mean field approaches, Hartree and Hartree-Fock, spin-statistics, the Slater determinant, the Pauli principle, and the Huckel approach (LCAO for aromatic compounds).

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Lecture Notes

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Fall 2007
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Problem Sets with Solutions
Lecture Notes