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

 

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

 

 

Sep 3

Mon

Labor Day

 

3

Sep 5

Wed

Hydrogen, Relativistic Effects

 

 

Sept 10

Mon

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

 

4

Sept 12

Wed

Many electron atoms, Hund’s rules

 

5

Sept 17

Mon

Magnetic properties, Larmor diamagnetism, Paramagnetism

 

6

Sept 19

Wed

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

 

7

Sept 24

Mon

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

 

8

Sept 26

Wed

Electronic configuration of biatomic molecules

 

9

Oct 1

Mon

Review

 

10

Oct 3

Wed

Midterm Exam I

 

11

Oct 8

Mon

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

 

12

Oct 10

Wed

Hexagonal lattices. Lattices with basis.

 

13

Oct 15

Mon

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

 

14

Oct 17

Wed

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

 

15

Oct 22

Mon

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

 

16

Oct 24

Wed

Crystal Momentum, Band folding (Chap. 8)

 

17

Oct 29

Mon

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

 

18

Oct 31

Wed

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

 

19

Nov 5

Mon

Classic Harmonic Crystal (Chap 22: 422 443)

 

20

Nov 7

Wed

Quantum Harmonic Crystal (Chap. 23)

 

21

Nov 9

Fri

Einstein and Debye Models ( Chap 23)

 

22

Nov 11

Mon

Review

 

23

Nov 14

Wed

Midterm Exam II

 

24

Nov 19

Mon

Transport properties

 

25

Nov 21

Wed

Homework 5 in class

 

26

Nov 26

Mon

Semiconductors

 

27

Nov 28

Wed

Semiconductor Nanostructures

 

28

Dec 3

Mon

Classical and Quantum Hall effect

 

29

Dec 5

Wed

Review

 

 

Dec 12

Wed

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

 

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