LECTURE SCHEDULE PHY491

FALL 2006

L	DATE	DAY	TOPICS	REMARKS
1	Aug 28	Mon	Syllabus, Group Contract
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	Group Problem 1
	Sep 4	Mon	Labor Day
3	Sep 6	Wed	Hydrogen atom, radial and angular wfs, Laguerre polynomials, Lyman/Balmer trans.	GP1 due
4	Sept 11	Mon	Spin-orbit, many-electron atoms, self consistent field, equivalent configurations, Hund’s rules.	Group Problem 2
	Sept 13	Wed	No Class ( make-up on Fri Sept 29)
5	Sept 18	Mon	Variational method, symmetry of molecules	GP2 due HW1
6	Sept 20	Wed	Point groups, group representations, character tables, Wigner’s theorem	GP3
7	Sept 25	Mon	Hydrogen in a tetragonal field. Symmetry and degeneracy.	HW1 due
8	Sept 27	Wed	Born Oppenheimer, Molecular Orbitals	GP4 HW1 Sol
9	Sept 29	Fri	Electronic configuration of Biatomic Molecules, Heitler-London approximation
10	Oct 2	Mon	Review, practice for MT1
11	Oct 4	Wed	Midterm 1	MT1sol
12	Oct 9	Mon	Bravais lattices, FCC, BCC, HCP, Honeycomb lattice, Wigner-Seitz cell, Lattice with basis
13	Oct 11	Wed	Reciprocal Lattice in 1D and 3D, First Brillouin zone, Bragg criterion	GP4 due HW2 due
14	Oct 16	Mon	Von Laue criterion, Ewald construction	GP5
15	Oct 18	Wed	Bloch Theorem, Born-von Karmann BC
16	Oct 23	Mon	Energy bands, metal/insulator/semimetal effective mass, free electron bands in 1D and 2D	GP6
17	Oct 25	Wed	Electrons in a weak periodic potential
18	Oct 30	Mon	Density of States, Lattice vibrations	GP6 Due
19	Nov 1	Wed	Acoustic and Optical Modes, Long-Transversal	HW3 Due, GW7
20	Nov 6	Mon	Phonons, Lattice Specific heat, Einstein model
21	Nov 8	Wed	Debye model, Semiconductors	HW4 Due
22	Nov 13	Mon	Review, Practice for MT 2
23	Nov 15	Wed	Midterm 2	MT2 Sol MT2
24	Nov 20	Mon	Bands of Si and Ge , direct vs indirect gap, extrinsic semiconductors
25	Nov 22	Wed	Thanksgiving break
26	Nov 27	Mon	Transport: pn junction, tunnel diode
27	Nov 29	Wed	Hall effect, Landau orbits, Integer quantum Hall effect	HW5 due
28	Dec 4	Mon	Semiconductor Nanostructures	Nanostructures
29	Dec 6	Wed	Review, Practice for Final	HW6 due
	Dec 11 12:45-2:45	Mon	Room 1308	Final

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