| Date |
Subject |
Suggested reading material
|
| January 22 |
Quasiparticles
|
PN Sec. 1.1; A Ch. 1, 2; AM pp. 345-351
|
| January 24 |
Transport coefficients
|
A Ch. 3; AM pp. 244-256; 314-320.
|
January 29
|
Scattering mechanisms
|
A Sec. 4.1, 4.2; AM pp. 320-326.
|
January 31
|
Electron-phonon scattering
|
A Sec. 4.3, 4.4; AM Ch. 26.
|
February 4
|
Skin effect
|
AM p. 277; A Sec. 7.1-7.3; PN Sec. 3.6, 3.7.
|
February 5
|
Weak localization
|
A Sec. 11.3, 11.4; P Sec. 12.4.
|
February 7
|
Anderson localization |
A Sec. 11.6; P Sec. 12.1-12.3.
|
February 11
|
Landauer formula
|
see notes handed out in class
|
February 12
|
Mesoscopic fluctuations
|
A 11.7
|
February 14
|
no lecture
|
|
| February 19 |
Interaction effects |
A Sec. 13.1, 13.2; PN Sec. 1.2, 1.4, 1.5
|
February 21
|
Fermi-Liquid theory |
A Sec. 13.3; PN Sec. 1.3
|
February 26
|
no lecture
|
|
February 28
|
no
lecture
|
|
March 4
|
Collective excitations in Fermi
Liquids
|
A Sec. 13.5; PN Sec. 1.7, 1.9
|
March 6
|
Screening
|
PN 2.3, 2.4, 3.1-3.5
|
March 11
|
no
lecture
|
|
March 13
|
Stoner instability
|
AM p.682-684
|
| March 18 |
spring break |
|
| March 20 |
spring break |
|
March 25
|
Magnetic impurities |
P Ch. 6; H Ch. 1
|
March 27
|
Kondo effect: overview |
see notes handed out in class
|
March 31
|
Kondo effect: perturbation theory |
H Ch. 2; A Sec. 4.6 |
April 1
|
Kondo effect: scaling approach |
H Ch. 3; And Sec. 5C, p. 483-488
|
April 3
|
Kondo effect: low temperatures |
H Ch. 5; A Sec. 13.7
|
April 8
|
no lecture
|
|
April 10
|
More Kondo physics
|
H Secs. 1.9, 6.5, 9.3
|
| April 14 |
Thermodynamics of superconductors |
T Ch. 1,2; A Ch. 15. |
| April 15 |
Phonon-mediated attraction |
A Secs. 16.1, 16.2; AM Ch. 26;
dG Sec. 4.2
|
April 17
|
Cooper pairs
|
T Sec. 3.1; A Secs. 16.3; dG Sec. 4.1
|
April 21
|
BCS theory |
T Secs. 3.3-3.7; A Secs. 16.4; dG Sec. 5.1
|
| April 22 |
Applications of BCS theory |
T Secs. 3.8-3.10; A Secs. 16.5, 16.6; dG Sec. 5.2
|
| April 24 |
Meissner effect |
T Sec. 3.11; A Secs. 16.7-16.9; dG Sec. 5.3
|
April 29
|
Josephson effect |
T Sec. 6.1; A Secs. 22.1-22.3
|
May 1
|
Landau-Ginzburg theory |
T Ch. 4; A Ch. 17; dG Ch. 6
|