Lecture Notes

One Bloch at a Time

Description:

Lecture presentation on Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian formulations, acoustic and optical phonons, Bravais lattices and lattices with a basis, point groups and group symmetries, primitive unit cells, conventional unit cells, periodic boundary conditions, and the reciprocal lattice.

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Lecture Notes
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One Bloch at a Time

Course Info

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Fall 2007
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Problem Sets with Solutions
Lecture Notes