General Information (01/17/2004)

Textbook (on reserve the library) :

"Condensed Matter Physics" by M. P. Mardar Corrected Printing (John Wiley & Sons., Inc, Ney York, 2000).

• 50% --- homework (5 sets)
• 25% --- mid-term (study group presentation)
• 25% --- take-home final exam

• Ashcroft and Mermin, Solid State Physics.

• Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, Seventh Edition.

• R. H. Silsbee and J. Draeger, Simulations for Solid State Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1997

• M. Tinkham, Introduction to superconductivity, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996.

• The text has a long list of references at the end of each chapter. The Rev. Mod. Phys. papers should be particularly useful.

• I will be pointing to these and other references in "Course Calendar" as we go.