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

September

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2 3

labor day, no classes

4

lecture 2

Hall effect, magnetoresistance, ac electric conductivity, EM wave propagation in metals, plasma frequency

5 6

lecture 3

thermal conductivity, Weidemann-Franz law, thermoelectric effect, free electron wavefunctions with periodic boundary conditions

7 8
9 10 11

lecture 4

Sommerfeld model, quantum ground state of free electron gas, Fermi surface and Fermi energy, ground state energy, density of states, pressure, bulk modulus

12 13

lecture 5

ideal fermi gas at finite temperature, temperature dependence of the chemical potential, specific heat of electron gas, transport properties within the Sommerfeld model

14 15
16 17 18

lecture canceled

19 20

lecture 6

magnetic properties: Pauli paramagnetism, Landau levels for orbital motion

HW #1 due

21 22
23 24 25

lecture 7

Landau diamagnetism at T=0

26 27

lecture 8

de Haas - van Alphen effect, screening by the electron gas, Thomas-Fermi dielectric function, classical Debye-Huckle dielectric function

28 29
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