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

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lecture canceled

3 4

lecture 9

Lindhard dielectric function, Friedel (Ruderman-Kittel) oscillations, Kohn effect

5 6
7 8

fall break

9

fall break

10 11

lecture 10

RKKY interaction and the spin glass, plasmons

HW #2 due

Meliora Weekend

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Meliora Weekend

13

Meliora Weekend

14

Meliora Weekend

15 16

lecture 11

Wigner crystal, Cooper pairs

17 18

lecture 12

Bravais lattices and crystal structures

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21 22

lecture 13

reciprocal lattice, Bragg and von Laue formulations of X-ray scattering

make-up lecture 2 pm in BL 480

23

lecture 14

X-ray scattering from Bravias lattice with a basis, Bloch's theorem, energy gaps at Bragg planes

24 25

lecture 15

Brillouin zones, Born-von Karmen boundary conditions, Fourier transforms on a Bravais lattice, Schrodinger's equation for electrons in a periodic potential

HW #3 due

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lecture 16

Bloch's theorem more rigorously, crystal momentum and band index, reduced, repeated, and extended zone schemes for electronic band structure, average velocity of a Bloch electron state

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