Professor: Piet Brouwer,
538 Clark Hall, tel. 58963,
brouwer@ccmr.cornell.edu.
Grader: Kaden Hazzard
Course webpage: http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/~brouwer/p636.
Literature:
There will not be a single textbook for this course. We will make use
of the following books:
Theory of Quantum Liquids, P. Nozieres and D. Pines, Perseus
Books, 1999.
Introduction to Superconductivity, M. Tinkham, Dover, 2004.
The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions, A. C. Hewson, Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
A few topics will be described in lecture notes (the Kondo problem and
on a few other items); for other topics not covered in the books you'll
have to rely on the notes you take in class.
There is a number of other books that you could equally well use as
a reference for a part of the course:
Fundamentals of the theory of metals, A. A. Abrikosov,
North-Holland,
1988.
Solid State Physics, N. W. Ashroft and N. D. Mermin, Thomson,
1976.
Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics, P. W. Anderson,
Perseus
Books, 1997.
Advanced Solid State Physics, P. Phillips, Westview Press,
2002.
Landau Fermi-Liquid Theory, G. Baym and C. Pethick, Wiley, 1991.
Superconductivity of Metals and Alloys, P. G. de Gennes, Perseus
Books, 1999.
Theory of superconductivity, J.R. Schrieffer, Addison-Wesley,
1983.
Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems, S. Datta, Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
All of these books are held on reserve in the Physical Sciences Library (Clark Hall).
Course syllabus and reading assignments
Office hours: Wednesdays, 4.00pm-5.45pm (following P654).
Academic Integrity: Each
student in this course is expected to abide
by the Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity. You are allowed
to
discuss the subject and the homework problems with others. However, you
should write up the homework by yourself and acknowledge all sources.
Course grade:
S/U grade option: grade based on attendance and homework.
Letter grade option: grade based on attendance, homework (60%)
and an oral examination (40%).