PHY 555: Solid State Physics 1

Instructor: Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Physics B139, maria.fernandez-serra@stonybrook.edu

Lecture Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30-10:50am

Lecture room: B131

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Syllabus

Lectures

Lecture 1: Intro and motivation
Lecture 2: Electrons in 1D Periodic Potential
  • Lecture 2 notes
  • Readings:
    • Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter I.1
    • Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 8
Lectures 3-4: Bravais Lattice and Reciprocal Lattice
Lecture 5: Tight Binding Band Structure I
  • Lecture 5 notes
  • Readings:
    • Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter I.4
    • Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 10
    • Ziman, Chapter 3
Lecture 6-7: Tight Binding Band Structure II
Lecture 8-9: Nearly Free Electrons and Plane Waves
Lecture 10-11: Sommerfeld Model for Metals
  • Lecture 10-11 notes
  • Readings:
    • Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter III
    • Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 2
Lectures 12-13: Electron Dynamics
Lecture 14: Intro to lattice dynamics
  • Lecture 14 notes
  • Readings:
    • Grosso and Parravicini, Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter IX
    • Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 21, 22
    • Cohen and Louie, Chapter 4
Lecture 16-17: Lattice dynamics
Lecture 18-19: Thermodynamics of the Crystal Lattice
  • Lecture 18-19 notes
  • Readings:
    • Grosso and Parravicini, Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter IX
    • Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 21, 22
    • Cohen and Louie, Chapter 4
Lecture 20-21: Measuring phonons and Lattice anharmonicity
  • Lecture 20-21 notes
  • Readings:
    • Grosso and Parravicini, Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter IX
    • Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 21, 22
    • Cohen and Louie, Chapter 4
Lecture 22-23: Many Electron Interactions
  • Lecture 22-23 notes
  • Readings:
    • Grosso and Parravicini, Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter iV
    • Cohen and Louie, Chapter 6

Homework

Homework 1 (Due 09/06/24)
Homework 2 (Due 09/20/24)
Homework 3 (Due 10/04/24)
Homework 4 (Due 10/18/24)
Homework 5 (Due 11/01/24)
Homework 6-7 (Due 12/09/24)