Condensed Matter Physics Ii

AY2018/2019 Semester 1

This course introduces advanced concepts in solid state physics with particular attention to theoretical approaches. Transport and scattering - crystal momentum; neutron scattering; electron-phonon scattering; optical conductivity; Drude theory, plasmons; transport in electric and magnetic fields; quantization of orbits, cyclotron resonance; de Haas-van Alphen effect; Fermi surfaces; magnetoresistance oscillation Semiconductors - thermal equilibrium of quaisparticles; field effect transistor; pn junctions, LED; exciton, heterostrutures, quantum well, semiconductor laser. Magnetism - origin moments and interactions. ferromagnetism; itinerant magnetism, Stoner model;.strongly intercting systems, Mott insulator. Superconductor ? Phenomenology of Superconductivity, Microscopic theory of superconductivity