| 1 |
Free Electron Model |
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| 2 |
Crystalline Lattice |
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| 3 |
Debye Waller Factor and Incommensurate Structures |
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| 4 |
Point Group for Bravais Lattice |
Problem set 1 due |
| 5 |
Bloch Theorem |
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| 6 |
Band Structure |
Problem set 2 due |
| 7 |
Orthogonalized Plane Wave (OPW) |
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| 8 |
Pseudopotential and Augmented-Plane-Wave (APW) |
Problem set 3 due |
| 9 |
Tight Binding, van Hove Singularity |
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| 10 |
Experimental Tests of Band Structure and A Survey of the Periodic Table |
Problem set 4 due |
| 11 |
Semiconductors: Donors, Acceptors and Excitons |
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| 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 |
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| 14 |
Quantum Hall Effect and Edge States |
Problem set 6 due |
| 15 |
Electron-electron Interaction: Hartree-Fock Approximation |
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| 16 |
Exchange Energy for Jellium |
Problem set 7 due |
| 17 |
Density Functional Theory |
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| 18 |
Hubbard Model, Screening and Plasmons |
Problem set 8 due |
| 19 |
Phonons |
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| 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 |
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| 23 |
The Bogoliubov Quasiparticles |
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| 24 |
Ginzburg Landau Free Energy, Meissner Effect and Flux Quantization |
Problem set 11 due |
