LECTURE SCHEDULE PHY491

FALL 2007

RM=Reading Material, GW=Group Work, HW= Homework, L=Lecture notes 

L

DATE

DAY

TOPICS

REMARKS

1

Aug 27

Mon

Syllabus, Group Contract

 RM1

2

Aug 31

Wed

Hydrogen atom, CM-relative motion separation for two body problem, Coulomb units, method of separation of variables for PDE, quantum well excitons

RM2, GW1

 

Sep 3

Mon

Labor Day

 

3

Sep 5

Wed

Hydrogen, Relativistic Effects

HW1, RM3, L3

 

Sept 10

Mon

 No Class  (Makeup on Fri Nov 9th  1:40pm -2:55pm)

 

4

Sept 12

Wed

Many electron atoms, Hund’s rules

GW1 due SOLGW1 GW2, L4,

RM4

5

Sept 17

Mon

Magnetic properties, Larmor diamagnetism, Paramagnetism

L5, RM5

6

Sept 19

Wed

Van Vleck paramagnetism, Born-Oppenheimer approximation, H2+ molecule

HW1 due

SOLHW1

HW2, L6, RM6

7

Sept 24

Mon

Molecular orbitals, Hund-Mulliken and Heitler-London for H2

 L7

8

Sept 26

Wed

Electronic configuration of biatomic molecules

GW2 due, GW3

SOLGW2

 L8, RM7

9

Oct 1

Mon

Review

 

10

Oct 3

Wed

Midterm Exam I

HW2due, SOLHW2, MT1, SOLMT1

11

Oct 8

Mon

Crystal Lattices, BCC, FCC, Bravais Lattices, Wigner Seitz unit cell (Chap. 4, Ashcroft-Mermin)

L9

12

Oct 10

Wed

Hexagonal lattices. Lattices with basis.

L10, GW3 due, SOLGW3, GW4

13

Oct 15

Mon

Reciprocal Lattice, Brillouin Zone (Chap. 5, Ashcroft-Mermin, all)

L11

14

Oct 17

Wed

X-Ray Scattering, Ewald’s construction (Chap. 6)

L12, HW3

15

Oct 22

Mon

Structure Factor (Chap. 6), Bloch theorem (Chap 8, no proofs)

L13

16

Oct 24

Wed

Crystal Momentum, Band folding (Chap. 8)

L14, GW5, SOLGW4

17

Oct 29

Mon

Nearly free electrons, metals and insulators ( Chap. 9: 152-162)

L15

18

Oct 31

Wed

Tight binding, density of states (Chap 10 176-183)

L16, HW4, SOLHW3

19

Nov 5

Mon

Classic Harmonic Crystal (Chap 22: 422 443)

L17

20

Nov 7

Wed

Quantum Harmonic Crystal (Chap. 23)

L18, GW6, SOLGW5

21

Nov 9

Fri

Einstein and Debye Models ( Chap 23)

L19

22

Nov 11

Mon

Review

HW5, MT2_06,

SOLGW6

23

Nov 14

Wed

Midterm Exam II

MT2

SOLMT2,

SOLHW4

24

Nov 19

Mon

Transport properties

L20

25

Nov 21

Wed

Homework 5 in class

 

26

Nov 26

Mon

Semiconductors

L21

27

Nov 28

Wed

Semiconductor Nanostructures

L22, SOLHW5, HW6

28

Dec 3

Mon

Classical and Quantum Hall effect

L23

29

Dec 5

Wed

Review

F_06

SOLF_06

 

Dec 12

Wed

(12:45pm-2:45pm) FINAL EXAM

SOLHW6

F_07

SOLF_07

 

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