The goal of this note is to survey various
ground states of condensed matter, many particle systems, explore their
excitations and concomitant properties. Topics covered includes: Models,
hamiltonians and symmetries, Periodic potentials or tight-binding models, Many
particles, second quantization and field theoretic formulation, Metals and
insulators, Physics of metals: transport theory, Phonons and electron-phonon
interactions, Electron-electron interactions, Interaction effects in
semiconductors: excitons, Instabilities of fermi liquid, Superconductivity, GL
and BCS theories, Magnetism, Charge density wave systems, Mott transition.
The contents in this pdf include
: Basic concepts, Lattice Vibrations: Phonons, Electrons in a Lattice, Normal
Metals, Classical Transport in Electron and Phonon Systems.
Topics covered in this lecture note are : Many
electron systems, Second quantization, Interactions in the electron gas, Mean
field approaches. Hartree-Fock approximation, Lattice based descriptions,
Artificial quantum systems, Low dimensional systems: From the real to the
Hilbert space.
The topics explained in this pdf
include: Broken Symmetry, Crystal Math, Deformations of Crystals, Electronic
Band Structure of Crystals, Metals, Semiconductors and Insulators, Mesoscopia,
Landau Fermi Liquid Theory, Linear Response of Quantum Systems, Phenomenological
Theories of Superconductivity, BCS Theory of Superconductivity, Applications of
BSC Theory, Magnetism, Spins, Coherent States, Path Integrals, and
Applications.
Author(s): Daniel Arovas,
Department of Physics University of California
This note covers the following
topics: introduction to soft materials, Surfactants,The van der Waals potential,
Forces arising from fluctuations, Introduction to polymers, freely-jointed-chain
calculation, worm-like chain model, The Langevin equation, Diffusion equation,
The Dynamic light scattering (DLS), Liquid interfaces, The shape of a liquid
interface and capillary forces, Lipid membranes, The Flory Huggins theory,
Colloidal gels and the fractal dimension, Hydrodynamics.
Condensed Matter Physics is the study
of materials in Solid and Liquid Phases. Topics covered includes: Crystallography, Structures, Structure Determination, The Reciprocal Lattice,
Electrons, Electronic State, Approximate Models, Electron-Electron Interactions,
Stability of Structures, Metals, Phonons, Harmonic Phonons, Magnetic Impurities,
Itinerant Magnetism, Magnetic Neutron Scattering and Superconductivity.