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LEC #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Free Electron Model
2Crystalline Lattice
3Debye Waller Factor and Incommensurate Structures
4Point Group for Bravais LatticeProblem set 1 due
5Bloch Theorem
6Band StructureProblem set 2 due
7Orthogonalized Plane Wave (OPW)
8Pseudopotential and Augmented-Plane-Wave (APW)Problem set 3 due
9Tight Binding, van Hove Singularity
10Experimental Tests of Band Structure and A Survey of the Periodic TableProblem set 4 due
11Semiconductors: Donors, Acceptors and Excitons
12Semiclassical Dynamics of Electrons, Bloch Oscillation and Quantization of Orbits in a Uniform Magnetic FieldProblem set 5 due
13de Haas-van Alphen Effect and Quantum Hall Effect
14Quantum Hall Effect and Edge StatesProblem set 6 due
15Electron-electron Interaction: Hartree-Fock Approximation
16Exchange Energy for JelliumProblem set 7 due
17Density Functional Theory
18Hubbard Model, Screening and PlasmonsProblem set 8 due
19Phonons
20Electron-phonon Coupling and Electron LifetimeProblem set 9 due
21Attraction by Exchanging PhononsProblem set 10 due
22The Cooper Instability and the BCS Wavefunction
23The Bogoliubov Quasiparticles
24Ginzburg Landau Free Energy, Meissner Effect and Flux QuantizationProblem set 11 due

 








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