PHZ5492 Condensed Matter Physics II, Spring 2009

Syllabus

Lectures: TR 0915--1030, UPL 110

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

Office Hours:  Tue., Thu., 11:00-12:00 in 617 Keen, or by appointment.

Course Description: Advanced topics in condensed matter physics.
    Prerequisites: PHZ 5491 (Condensed Matter I).

Main Texts:

• N.W. Ashcroft and N.D. Mermin, Solid State Physics, (Holt, Rinegart and Winston, 1976).
• M. Tinkham, Introduction to Superconductivity, Second edition (Dover, 2004).

Further Reading:

• 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).
• J.R. Schrieffer, Theory of Superconductivity, Revised printing, (Benjamin/Cummings, 1983).

Course Topics:

• 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.

Course Web Page: http://www.physics.fsu.edu/courses/Spring09/PHZ5492/

Course Work:  Throughout the course there will be on the order of 6 homework assignments (70% of grade) and a take home final exam (30% of grade)..

Homework Assignments:

• HW#1:  Click here for pdf.  Due Tuesday, Jan. 20. 
• HW#2:  Click here for pdf.  Due Tuesday, Feb. 3.  (Deadline extended to Thursday, Feb. 5)
• HW#3:  Click here for pdf.  Due Thursday, Feb. 19.
• HW#4:  Click here for pdf.  Due Thursday, Mar. 5.
• HW#5.  Click here for pdf.  Due Thursday, Apr. 2 (Deadline extended to Thursday, Apr. 9).
• TAKE HOME FINAL:  Click here for pdf.  Due Friday, May 1.

 

Absence: Please inform me in advance of any excused absence (e.g., religious holiday) on the day an assignment is due. If the absence is known in advance, you can hand the homework in early.  Missed assignments due to unexpected absences will be handled on a case by case basis.                                                               

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