Lecture Notes on Condensed Matter Physics Daniel Arovas
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Lecture Notes on Condensed Matter Physics Daniel Arovas
Lecture Notes on Condensed Matter Physics Daniel Arovas
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
The contents in this pdf include
: Basic concepts, Lattice Vibrations: Phonons, Electrons in a Lattice, Normal
Metals, Classical Transport in Electron and Phonon Systems.
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.
This note explains the
following topics: Quantum Theory Of Solids, Quantum Statistic Of Idea Gases,
Second Quantization, Periodic Structures And Bloch Theorem, Electron-electron
Interactions, Dynamics Of Bloch Electrons.
The aim of this note is to provide a self
contained introduction to the basic tools and concepts of many-body quantum
mechanics and quantum field theory, motivated by physical applications, and
including the methods of second quantisation, the Feynman path integral and
functional field integral.
This note covers the following topics: Emergent Matter, Many-Body
Physics in the Cold War, Renormalization group, Fractional Quantum Hall Effect,
Condensed Matter Physics in the New Era.