Pic picture

Home

Contact Info

Course Info

Calendar

Homework

Lecture Notes


 
 

PHY 521: Condensed Matter Physics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Spring 2022

September

August | September | October | November | December

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
  1

lecture 1

metals, Drude model, dc electric conductivity

2 3
4 5

Labor Day, no classes

6

lecture 2

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

7 8

lecture 3

thermal conductivity, Weidemann-Franz law, thermoelectric effect

9 10
11 12 13

lecture 4

Sommerfeld model, free electron wavefunctions with periodic boundary conditions, quantum ground state of free electron gas, Fermi surface and Fermi energy, ground state energy, density of states, pressure, bulk modulus

14 15

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

16 17
18 19 20

lecture 6

magnetic properties: Pauli paramagnetism, Landau levels for orbital motion

21 22

lecture 7

Landau diamagnetism at T=0; some nicely typed notes are here

HW #1 due

23 24
25 26 27

lecture canceled

office hour canceled

28 29

lecture 8

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

30