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PHY 521: Condensed Matter Physics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Fall 2012

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  1

lecture 17

density of states, van Hove singularities, weak potential approximation for electron eigenstates, velocity near a Bragg plane

2 3
4 5 6

lecture 18

band structure in the weak potential approximation, metals and insulators, Bravais lattice with a basis

HW #4 due

7 8

lecture 19

Brillouin Zones and the Fermi surface in the weak potential approximation, tight binding approximation for band structure, the s-band

9 10
11 12

lecture 20

Fermi surface in tight binding, hybridization of atomic orbitals, variational derivation of tight binding

make-up lecture 2 pm in BL 480

13

lecture 21

tight binding band structure for graphene

14 15

lecture 22

spin-orbit interaction, some discussion of real metals

16 17
18 19 20

lecture 23

semiclassical equations of motion, Bloch oscillations, effective mass, holes

HW #5 due

21 22

Thanksgiving break

23

Thanksgiving break

24

Thanksgiving break

25

Thanksgiving break

26 27

lecture 24

motion in perpendicular electric and magnetic fields

28 29

lecture 25

Hall effect and magnetoresistance from closed and open orbits

30