Advanced Solid State Class
Class syllabus
Usefull materials:
David Snoke's book
Ashcroft and Mermin's book
Auerbach's book
Goldenfeld's book
Lecture notes/slides
- Lecture 1: Boltzmann Equation pdf
- Lecture 2: Application of Boltzmann Equation to QHE pdf
- Lecture 3: QHE, Defects in Crystals, and Linear Response pdf
- Lecture 4: Linear Response pdf
- Lecture 5: Kramers Kronig, 2 Level System, Polaritons pdf
- Lecture 6: Polaritons pdf
- Lecture 7: Quantizing the EM Field pdf
- Lecture 8: Polaritons and Non-linear Optics pdf
- Lecture 9: Non-linear Optics and Perturbation Theory pdf
- Lecture 10: More Perturbation Theory pdf
- Lecture 11: Even More Perturbation Theory pdf
- Lecture 12: Feynman Diagrams pdf
- Lecture 13: More Feynman Diagrams pdf
- Lecture 14: Photon Self Energy And Resummation pdf
- Lecture 15: Resummation of Diagrams pdf
- Lecture 16: Interacting Fermi Gas pdf
- Lecture 17: Collective Modes and Stability of the Fermi Sea pdf
Homework:
HW1: DS 5.22, 5.23, 7.1, 7.2
HW2: DS 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8
HW3: DS 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, 8.1, 8.2, 8.9, 8.10
HW4: DS 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 8.15, 8.22
Midterm: Midterm Problems
HW5: HW5 Problems