Tentative Course Outline (01/17/2004)

Phys742: Condensed Matter Physics II, Spring 2004

• Electron transport.
  • Drude model
  • Sommerferfeld theory of metals
  • Dynamics of Bloch electrons
  • Boltzmann equation and transport
  • Electron interaction and theories of conduction

• Optical properties. Study group and presentations

• Introduction to correlation physics.
  • electron gas revisited
  • ⁴He and ³He; trapped atoms. (time permitting)
  • Hubbard-type models

• Magnetism.
  • magnetic moments
  • origin of the exchange interaction
  • spin waves
  • ferro- and antiferro-magnetism
  • Kondo effect
  • quantum Hall effects

• Superconductivity.
  • phenomenology
  • BCS theory
  • Ginzburg-Landau theory
  • high-T_c