Advanced Solid State Physics

SS11

Lecturer: Prof. Martin Weinelt

Tutor: Dr. Cornelius Gahl

Preliminary results of 1st exam here

You may look at the exam on Wednesday 13.07.2011 14:15 - 15:00, room 0.4.15

Resit of written test on Monday 17.10.2011 from 16:00 (s.t.) to 18:00

Link at Condensed Matter in HyperPhysics

Exercise courses

Wednesday 8:00 - 10:00 h / Arnimallee 14
Wednesday 10:00 - 12:00 h / Arnimallee 14

Practice sheets

X1.pdf - hand in Wednesday 27.04.

X2.pdf - hand in Wednesday 04.05.

X3.pdf - hand in Wednesday 11.05.

X4.pdf - hand in Wednesday 18.05.

X5.pdf - hand in Wednesday 25.05.

X6.pdf - hand in Wednesday 01.06.

X7.pdf - hand in Wednesday 08.06.

X8.pdf - hand in Wednesday 15.06.

X9.pdf - hand in Wednesday 22.06.

X10/11.pdf - hand in Wednesday 06.07.

Debriefing of written test on Wednesday 13.07.

Advanced Solid State Physics

Chapter 0 – Introduction / magnetite

Intro.pdf

Chapter 1 – The solid-state problem

Chapter_1.pdf

  1. The Hamiltonian of the solid
  2. The adiabatic approximation
  3. The "simplified" Hamiltonian

Chapter 2 – Free Electrons in metals

Chapter_2.pdf

  1. Electron density
  2. Electrical and thermal conductivity (Drude, Lorenz, Wiedemann-Franz)
  3. From k-space to energy integrals and the density of states
  4. Simple view of electrostatic screening

Chapter III – Bosons and Fermions

Chapter_3.pdf

  1. Statistical entropy
  2. Grand canonical and canonical ensemble
  3. Wave functions
  4. The ideal Fermi and Bose gas
  5. Specific heat of electrons

Chapter IV – Band theory

Chapter_4.pdf

  1. Bloch theorem
  2. Band structure
  3. Velocity and effective mass of Bloch electrons
  4. Band gaps - electrons in a weak periodic potential
  5. Band width - tight-binding

Chapter V – Measuring Fermi surfaces and band structures

Chapter_5.pdf

  1. The de Haas - van Alphen effect
  2. Cyclotron resonance
  3. Angle-resolved photoemission

Chapter VI – The spectral function

Chapter_6.pdf

  1. Newns-Anderson model
  2. The density matrix approach

Chapter VII - Electron - electron interaction

  1. The occupation number representation
  2. Electron – electron interaction
  3. Excursus on time-resolved photoemission Chapter_7-3.pdf
  4. Hartree and Hartree-Fock Equations Chapter_7-4.pdf
  5. The dielectric response of the electron gas - Lindhard equation Chapter_7-5.pdf
  6. Dielectric properties of solids (plasmons, Drude and interband absorption, polaritons)
  7. Excursus on core-level spectroscopy Chapter_7-6.pdf

 

 

 updated 22.06.2011 MW