Theory of Solids I

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Free Electron Model
2	Crystalline Lattice
3	Debye Waller Factor and Incommensurate Structures
4	Point Group for Bravais Lattice	Problem set 1 due
5	Bloch Theorem
6	Band Structure	Problem set 2 due
7	Orthogonalized Plane Wave (OPW)
8	Pseudopotential and Augmented-Plane-Wave (APW)	Problem set 3 due
9	Tight Binding, van Hove Singularity
10	Experimental Tests of Band Structure and A Survey of the Periodic Table	Problem set 4 due
11	Semiconductors: Donors, Acceptors and Excitons
12	Semiclassical Dynamics of Electrons, Bloch Oscillation and Quantization of Orbits in a Uniform Magnetic Field	Problem set 5 due
13	de Haas-van Alphen Effect and Quantum Hall Effect
14	Quantum Hall Effect and Edge States	Problem set 6 due
15	Electron-electron Interaction: Hartree-Fock Approximation
16	Exchange Energy for Jellium	Problem set 7 due
17	Density Functional Theory
18	Hubbard Model, Screening and Plasmons	Problem set 8 due
19	Phonons
20	Electron-phonon Coupling and Electron Lifetime	Problem set 9 due
21	Attraction by Exchanging Phonons	Problem set 10 due
22	The Cooper Instability and the BCS Wavefunction
23	The Bogoliubov Quasiparticles
24	Ginzburg Landau Free Energy, Meissner Effect and Flux Quantization	Problem set 11 due