2
This is the first term of a theoretical treatment of the physics of solids.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
666 years, 7 months
Units & Quizzes
24
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
Topics covered include crystal structure and band theory, density functional theory, a survey of properties of metals and semiconductors, quantum Hall effect, phonons, electron phonon interaction and superconductivity.
Course Currilcum
- Free Electron Model Unlimited
- Crystalline Lattice Unlimited
- Debye Waller Factor and Incommensurate Structures Unlimited
- Point Group for Bravais Lattice Unlimited
- Bloch Theorem Unlimited
- Band Structure Unlimited
- Orthogonalized Plane Wave (OPW) Unlimited
- Pseudopotential and Augmented-Plane-Wave (APW) Unlimited
- Tight Binding, van Hove Singularity Unlimited
- Experimental Tests of Band Structure and A Survey of the Periodic Table Unlimited
- Semiconductors: Donors, Acceptors and Excitons Unlimited
- Semiclassical Dynamics of Electrons Unlimited
- de Haas-van Alphen Effect and Quantum Hall Effect Unlimited
- Quantum Hall Effect and Edge States Unlimited
- Electron-electron Interaction: Hartree-Fock Approximation Unlimited
- Exchange Energy for Jellium Unlimited
- Density Functional Theory Unlimited
- Hubbard Model, Screening and Plasmons Unlimited
- Phonons Unlimited
- Electron-phonon Coupling and Electron Lifetime Unlimited
- Attraction by Exchanging Phonons Unlimited
- The Cooper Instability and the BCS Wavefunction Unlimited
- The Bogoliubov Quasiparticles Unlimited
- Ginzburg Landau Free Energy, Meissner Effect and Flux Quantization Unlimited
