Peter J. Hirschfeld, Spring 1999

PHY7427, Solid State II Schedule & Lecture Notes

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All lecture notes copyright 1999 Peter J. Hirschfeld

Notes are in postscript. To get a postscript viewer for your PC or Mac, try this site. Or you can download the files from any unix machine in the department. If there is a general sentiment in favor of pdf, I can convert them.

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Month	Material	Homework & Tests	Notes & Remarks
January	Goals Fermi gas 2nd quantization Green's function for Fermi gas Observables from Green's functions	-	Introduction 18 January--MLK Day
	Analytic properties Retarded and advanced functions Quasiparticles/Fermi liquid Finite temperatures	Problem Set 1	Spectral properties 27-29 Jan. classes cancelled; extra hours 25 Jan, 1 Feb.
February	Perturbation series Feynman diagrams Dyson equation Hartree-Fock approximation	Test 1  Hand out 24 Feb., due 5 Mar.	Perturbation theory
	Fermi Liquid Theory Kubo Formula Correlation functions Coulomb Screening Electron-phonon interaction Itinerant magnetism	-	Normal metals
	Phenomenology of superconductivity BCS theory	-	Superconductivity I
March	Ginzburg-Landau theory Unconventional superconductivity	Problem Set 2 Paper topic commitments due March 15	8 March - reschedule Superconductivity II  8-12 March Spring break
	Magnetic phenomenology Spin wave theory Quantum antiferromagnets	-	Magnetism  22,24 March APS meeting
April	Quantum Hall effect	Test 2 Final paper due Apr. 19	Quantum Hall effect  9 April--reschedule

Peter Hirschfeld / pjh@phys.ufl.edu / Last modified: Jan. 18 1999