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. Note Mondays I will be in my IACS office. (The Institute for Advanced Computational Science is housed in the IACS/Laufer building, right next to the Life Sciences building.)
Lectures
Lecture 1: Intro and motivation
Lecture 2: Electrons in 1D Periodic Potential
- Lecture 2 notes
- Lecture 2 summary
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter I.1
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 8
Lectures 3-4: Bravais Lattice and Reciprocal Lattice
- Lecture 3 notes
- Lecture 3 slides
- Brilloin Zones and High Symmetry directions
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter II
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapters 4 & 5
- Cohen and Louie, Chapter II
Lecture 5: Tight Binding Band Structure I
- Lecture 5 notes
- H2+ tight binding
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter I.4
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 10
- Ziman, Chapter 3
Lecture 6-7: Tight Binding Band Structure II
- Lecture 6 notes
- Lecture 6 slides
- Chadi-Cohen Paper
- Chadi-Cohen TB program
- Brilloin Zones and Symmetry points
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter I.4
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 10
- Ziman, Chapter 3
Lecture 8-9: Nearly Free Electrons and Plane Waves
- Lecture 8 notes li> Lecture 9 notes </li>
- Lecture 8-9 slides
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter I.5
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 9
- Ziman, Chapter 3
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 12-13 notes
- Lecture 12 slides
- Bloch Oscillations notebook
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter I.4 & I.6
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter I
- Cohen and Louie, Chapter 3.5 & 9.2
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 16-17 notes
- Lecture 16 slides
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter IX
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 21, 22
- Cohen and Louie, Chapter 4
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