Course Information

  • Lecturer 1: Jian-Hao Chen (chenjianhao@pku.edu.cn)

  • Lecturer 2: Xiong-Jun Liu (xiongjunliu@pku.edu.cn)

  • TA: Guangyi Chen (chenguangyi@pku.edu.cn)

  • Time & Place: Wed.10:10-12:00 Fri.8:00-9:50  理教415

  • Prerequisites: Quantum Mechanics, Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

  • Format: Oral Presentations by Dr. Jian-Hao Chen and Dr. Xiongjun Liu (8 weeks for each lecturer)

  • Grading: Homeworks 40%, Midterm 20%, Final 40%
                      -   Homeworks will be assigned after every class and are due in one week, right before class.
                      -   Exam format: Written

  • Q & A:
                      - Jian-Hao Chen    Mon. 9:00-10:00 in Physics Building W667.
                      - Xiongjun Liu    Wed. 14:00-15:00 in Physics Building W535.

    • Recitation: (by Guangyi Chen)
                          - Every two weeks. (三教206)

  • Reference Books:
                      - Introduction to Solid State Physics by  C. Kittel
                      - Solid State Physics by Ashcroft & Mermin

   
           

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Syllabus

  • Structure of Solids (4 classes / two weeks) Lecturer: Jian-Hao Chen
                    -   Basic crystal structure: Bravais lattice, Miller indices etc.
                    -   Diffraction and reciprocal lattices.
                    -   Lattice symmetry.
                    -   Crystal Binding.


  • Electronic band structure (4 classes / two weeks) Lecturer: Xiong-Jun Liu
                    -    Band theory: Bloch theorem, Bloch functions and Bloch dynamics.
                    -    Electron gas: non-interacting electron gas, nearly free electron gas, interacting electron gas.
                    -    Tight-binding approximation, spin-orbit coupling, metal, insulator, semimetal.


  • Semiclassical Transport (6 classes / three weeks) Lecturer: Jian-Hao Chen
                    -    Wave packet dynamics, Equation of motion, anomalous velocity.
                    - Boltzmann equation.
                    - Berry phase and Hall effect.
                    - Impurity scattering, Localization.


  • Lattice Dynamics (6 classes / three weeks) Lecturer: Jian-Hao Chen
                    - Classical Harmonic oscillators, 1D atomics chains.
                    - Quantum Harmonic lattice.
                    - Phonons and thermodynamics.


  • Magnetism (6 classes / three weeks) Lecturer: Xiongjun Liu
                    - Magnetic structures, Magnetic properties.
                    - Models and mean-field theories.
                    - Spontaneous symmetry breaking, spin waves.


  • Superconductivity (6 classes / three weeks) Lecturer: Xiongjun Liu
                    - Phenomenology and Ginzburg–Landau theory.
                    - Coopper instability.
                    - Intro to BCS theory.
                    - Recent progresses, topological superconductivity.