Condensed Matter Physics I 2016

  • Textbook: Ashcroft and Mermin (for some specific chapters, I will specify other references)
  • Evaluation: five problem sets, a mid-term exam and a final exam

    Lecture Notes

  • Inroduction, Drude model
  • Sommerfeld expansion

    • Problem sets

    1. Drude model, Sommerfeld expansion
    2. Crystal symmetries, Reciprocal Space, Bloch's theorem
    3. Quasicrystals, Landau levels in the symmetric gauge