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    This document outlines the syllabus for a Condensed Matter Physics I course. The course will cover topics including crystal lattices, reciprocal lattices, point defects, elasticity, dislocations, phonons, energy bands, Fermi surfaces, and basics of superconductivity. References for additional reading are provided. Sample exam problems and solutions as well as lecture notes are available online.

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    This document outlines the syllabus for a Condensed Matter Physics I course. The course will cover topics including crystal lattices, reciprocal lattices, point defects, elasticity, dislocations, phonons, energy bands, Fermi surfaces, and basics of superconductivity. References for additional reading are provided. Sample exam problems and solutions as well as lecture notes are available online.

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    This document outlines the syllabus for a Condensed Matter Physics I course. The course will cover topics including crystal lattices, reciprocal lattices, point defects, elasticity, dislocations, phonons, energy bands, Fermi surfaces, and basics of superconductivity. References for additional reading are provided. Sample exam problems and solutions as well as lecture notes are available online.

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    The course will cover topics in condensed matter physics including crystal lattices, phonons, energy bands, and superconductivity. Lectures and exercises will accompany chapters from solid state physics textbooks.

    The course will cover crystal lattices, reciprocal lattice, point defects, dislocations, phonons, free electron gas model, energy bands, Fermi surfaces, basics of superconductivity.

    In addition to textbook chapters, lectures, exercises, and lecture notes will be provided. A few references on quasicrystals will also be included.

    Condensed Matter Physics I

    Condensed Matter Physics I


    Syllabus (spring, 2004)

    The course follows roughly some chapters from Charles Kittel's


    book, Introduction to Solid State Physics, seventh edition, or
    from Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin, Solid State
    Physics. Here is an outline:

    ● Chapter 1, Kittel, or Chapter 4, A&M: Crystal lattices


    ● Chapter 2, Kittel, or Chapter 5, A&M: Reciprocal lattice
    ● Chapter 17, Kittel: Noncrystalline solids (pages 521-529;
    to Amorphous Ferromagnets)
    ● Chapter 18: Point defects and elasticity
    ● Lecture notes: basics of elasticity theory
    ● Chapter 20: Dislocations
    ● Chapter 4: Phonons I. Crystal vibrations
    ● Chapter 5: Phonons II. Thermal properties
    ● Chapter 6: Free electron Fermi gas
    ● Chapter 7: Energy bands
    ● Chapter 9: Fermi surfaces and metals (only to page 242:
    Electron orbits, hole orbits and open orbits).
    ● Chapter 12:Basics of superconductivity
    ● In addition, lectures and exercises.

    A few references on quasicrystals

    ● D. Levine and P. J. Steinhardt, Quasicrystals: A New Class of Ordered Structures, Phys. Rev.
    Lett. 53, 2477-2480 (1984).
    ● D. Levine and P. J. Steinhardt, Quasicrystals. I. Definition and structure, Phys. Rev. B 34, 596-
    616 (1986).
    ● D. Shechtman, I. Blech, D. Gratias, and J. W. Cahn, Metallic Phase with Long-Range
    Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1951-1953 (1984).
    ● KNUT W. URBAN, Quasicrystals: From tilings to coverings, Nature 396, 14-15 (1998).
    ● PATRICIA A. THIEL, and JEAN MARIE DUBOIS, Quasicrystals: Electrons in a strange
    sea, Nature 406, 570-573 (2000).
    ● Mark Sincell, Physicists Glimpse How Quasicrystals Boogie, Science 289, 1451 (2000).

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    Condensed Matter Physics I

    In addition: lecture notes and exercises, some of which you can find below.

    Other books of interest are:


    1. Neil W. Ashcroft, N. David 2. Harald Ibach, Hans Luth, 3. J. M. Ziman, Electrons and
    Mermin, Solid State Physics Solid-State Physics: An Phonons: The Theory of
    (Harcourt College Publishers) Introduction to Principles of Transport Phenomena in Solids
    Materials Science (Corr Print) (Oxford Classic Texts in the
    Physical Sciences)

    Exercises: Bravais lattices,

    ● PostScript Format (all available sets)


    ● PDF format (all available sets)
    ● In separate sets, for easy reference;
    ❍ Set I: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Notes on Fourier expansion: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set II: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set III: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set IV: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set V: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set VI: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set VII: PostScript, PDF )

    ❍ Set VIII: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set IX: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set X: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set XI: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set XII: PostScript, PDF

    ❍ Set XIII: PostScript, PDF

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    ❍ Set XIV: PostScript, PDF


    ❍ Set XV: PostScript, PDF
    ❍ Set XVI: PostScript, PDF
    ❍ Set XVII: PostScript, PDF

    Exam 2002: problems (PS, PDF) and solutions(PS, PDF).


    Exam 2005: problems (PS, PDF).

    Brief lecture notes on the second part, year 2002:


    ● PostScript Format
    ● PDF format

    A few identities and notations

    Important note: the exercises and lecture notes may contain some errors. Eventually these errors will
    be eliminated in time, so I appreciate any feed-back. Any comments or corrections (no matter how
    small) are welcome at my e-mail address.

    Back to my homepage.

    Last modified: 5.02.2003

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