Soft Condensed Matter

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

766 Pages

Quantum Condensed Matter Physics Lecture Notes Chetan Nayak

The topics in the pdf include: Conventions, Notation, Reminders, Basic Formalism, Phonons and Second Quantization, Perturbation Theory: Interacting Phonons, Feynman Diagrams and Green Functions, Imaginary-Time Formalism Measurements and Correlation Functions, Functional Integrals, Goldstone Modes and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Spin Systems and Magnons, Symmetries in Many-Body Theory, Critical Fluctuations and Phase Transitions, The Renormalization Group and Effective Field Theories, Fermions, Interacting Neutral Fermions: Fermi Liquid Theory, Electrons and Coulomb Interactions, Electron-Phonon Interaction, Rudiments of Conformal Field Theory, Symmetry-Breaking In Fermion Systems, Gauge Fields and Fractionalization, Localized and Extended Excitations in Dirty Systems.

Author(s): Chetan Nayak

480 Pages

Soft Condensed Matter

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.

Author(s): IA.D. Dinsmore

NA Pages

Lecture Notes on Condensed Matter Physics

These lecture notes are intended to supplement a graduate level course in condensed matter physics. Topics covered includes: Boltzmann Transport, Mesoscopia, Linear Response Theory, Response and Resonance, Magnetism.

Author(s): Daniel Arovas

186 Pages

Condensed Matter Physics I

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.

Author(s): Peter S. Riseborough

773 Pages

Lecture Notes Condensed Matter Theory I

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.

Author(s): J. Schmalian

70 Pages