Solid State Physics Introduction Lecture notes

Overview & Synopsis

This note covers the following topics nbsp The electronic structure tightbinding method and nearly freeelectron model, Comparison of results for tightbinding and nearlyfree electron model, Formalization Bloch theorem, Phonons in one dimension, Periodicity, Effect of a basis on the electronic structure, Crystal structures, The reciprocal lattice, Tightbinding in two dimensions, Optical spectroscopy, Quantummechanical treatment of optical spectroscopy, Relation to absorption, ThomasFermi screening, Ferromagnetism, Antiferromagnetism, Electronphonon interaction, Transition temperature, GinzburgLandau theory, Flux quantization and the Josephson effect.