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Physics Education Mathematical Physics Department of Physics Faculty of Science Lund University Solid State Theory (FYST25/FFF051) 7.5 HP

General information

• Band structure of crystals and semiconductor heterostructures
• Electron transport and scattering processes
• Magnetism
• Occupation number representation, density matrix formalism, and optical Bloch equations for semiconductor lasers
• Dielectric properties, Coulomb interaction, and excitons
• Superconductivity

Detailed description with reading instructions

• Crystal lattices (Chaps. 2.1+5;3.2+5)
• Thermal properties, Bose statistics for phonons (Chap 5.1-3)
• Free electrons, the consequences of Fermi statistics (Chap 6.1-4)
• Elementary band structure (Chap 7.1+2)
• Dynamics of electrons and holes (Chap 9.1+2)

Schedule VT 2010

• First Meeting: Tuesday 19. January 8:15  in room H421, If you cannot attend, please send an email to Andreas.Wacker@fysik.lu.se for registration (include you swedish personal number). Information distributed at first meeting.
• Lectures (mixed with exercises) weeks 3-9, 2010
• Tuesday 8-10 in room H421,
  
• Wednesday 15-17 in room H421 (changed for weeks 4-8), weeks 3+9 in room H221,
• Thursday 8-10 in room K457 (seminarierum F)  changed for weeks 4-9
  
• Guided study group: Monday 13-15 in room K457 (seminarierum F)
  
• Oral exams: week 10, the times will be distributed in the lecture.

Requirements and examination

• Written part: Handing in the homework problems in groups of three (or two). It is required that substantial work is done on 80% of the problems (i.e. the solution need not to be necessarily correct). I strongly prefer a wrong solution where the students dealt with the matter to one copied from textbooks or fellow students.
• Oral part: Individual oral exam at the end of the course. The student shall demonstrate that he/she can apply the material discussed in the lectures to solve the exercise problems. It is suggested to bring and use a compilation of important issues/formulas written by oneself (less than 4 pages).

Literature

• Compendium, which participants can access here.
  
• A textbook for independent study. Alternatively, I recommend David W. Snoke, Solid State Physics (Addison Wesley 2008), C. Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics (John Wiley & Sons, 1996), or H. Ibach and H. Lüth: Solid State Physics (Springer 2003), Table of content

• Quantum Theory of Solids by C. Kittel, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1987.
• Solid State Physics by N.W. Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin, Thomson Learning.
• Theory of Superconductivity by J.R. Schrieffer, Westview Press.
• Principles of the Theory of Solids by J. Ziman, Camb. Univ. Press, 1979.
• Principles of Condensed Matter Physics by P.M. Chaikin, T.C. Lubensky, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000.
• Solid State Theory by W. Harrison, Dover Publ., 1989.
• Semiconductor-Laser Fundamentals  by W.W. Chow and S.W. Koch, Springer 1999, Table of content
• Condensed Matter Physics  by M. P. Marder, John Wiley& Sons, 2000
• Semiconductors by D.K. Ferry, Macmillan 1991
• Fundamentals of Semiconductors by P.Y. Yu and M. Cardona, Springer 1999.

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