Lecturer: Nick Bonesteel
Office: A313 (Magnet Lab); 617 Keen (Physics Department)
Tel.: (850) 644-7805
E-mail: bonestee@magnet.fsu.edu

Description: Advanced topics in condensed matter physics.
Prerequisites: PHZ 5491 (Condensed Matter I).
Main Text: N.W. Ashcroft and N.D. Mermin, Solid State Physics, (Holt, Rinegart and Winston, 1976).
Course Web Page: http://www.physics.fsu.edu/courses/Spring01/PHZ5492/

Course Work:  Throughout the course there will be on the order of 5 homework assignments and a take home final exam.

 Problem Set 1   Due: Jan 23, 2001
 Problem Set 2   Due:  Feb 5, 2001
 Problem Set 3   Due:  Feb 20, 2001
 Problem Set 4   Due:  Mar 6, 2001
 Problem Set 5   Due:  April 3, 2001

 Final Exam     (pdf version)

Note: Much of the course material will come from the class notes as well as the following supplementary texts:

• J.M. Ziman, Principles of the Theory of Solids, Second edition (Cambridge University Press, 1972).
• O. Madelung, Introduction to Solid-State Theory, (Springer-Verlag, 1978).
• M. Tinkham, Introduction to Superconductivity, Second edition, (McGraw-Hill, 1996).
• J.R. Schrieffer, Theory of Superconductivity, Revised printing, (Benjamin/Cummings, 1983).

• Electron-Electron Interaction and Hartree-Fock Theory.
• Random-Phase Approximation and Screening in the Electron Gas.
• Electron-Phonon Interaction.
• Review of Second Quantization.
• BCS Theory of Superconductivity.
• Ginzburg-Landau Theory and Phenomenology of the Superconducting State.
• Magnetism: Ferromagnets, Antiferromagnets and Spin Waves.
• Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.