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lecture 20
Open and closed Fermi surfaces, tight binding approximation for band structure, the s-band
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5
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6
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7
lecture 21
Fermi surface in tight binding, hybridization of atomic orbitals, variational derivation of tight binding
HW #5 due
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9
lecture 22
Tight binding band structure for graphene
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11
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12
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13
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lecture 23
Graphene continued, Wannier function, spin-orbit interaction
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15
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lecture 24
Some discussion of real metals
HW #6 due
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lecture 25
Semiclassical equations of motion, Bloch oscillations, effective mass, holes
extra lecture 12:30 in BL 375
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20
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lecture 26
Motion in perpendicular electric and magnetic fields
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lecture 27
Hall effect and magnetoresistance from closed and open orbits, dynamical matrix
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25
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26
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27
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lecture 28
Normal modes of ion lattice vibration, acoustic and optical modes,the Born-Oppenheimer approximation and the Bohm-Staver relation for the speed of sound
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lecture 29
The electron-phonon interaction, quantization of ion lattice vibrations, Debye model for specific heat due to lattice vibrations, electron-phonon scattering and Bloch's T5 law for metalic resistivity
last day of classes
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