COURSE TIME: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 am - 10:20 am COURSE LOCATION: Physics 185 INSTRUCTOR: Richard Scalettar Email: scalettar@physics.ucdavis.edu OFFICE: Physics-Geology 409. OFFICE HOURS: Monday noon-1:00 pm; TEACHING ASSISTANT: Benjamin Cohen-Stead Email: bwcohenstead@ucdavis.edu OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday 1-2 pm. GRADING: Problem sets, each due on Wednesday, 5:00 pm: 70%. Final Examination, Friday Decmber 13, 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm: 30%.

TEXT: Girvin and Yang, "Modern Condensed Matter Physics"
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION,   PHYSICS 240ABC SEQUENCE:
Introduction to the phenomena and theory of the solid state. Periodic structures, lattice structures, electron states, static properties,
electron-electron interaction, electron dynamics, transport properties, optical properties, the Fermi surface, magnetism, superconductivity.

MORE DETAILED SYLLABUS/LECTURE NOTES:

NOTES: Intro and Crystal Structure

NOTES: The Reciprocal Lattice

NOTES: X-Ray Scattering

NOTES: Binding Energies

NOTES: Phonons

NOTES: Phonon Specific Heat

NOTES: Free electron theory

NOTES: Free electron theory: Thermodynamics and Sommerfeld Expansion

NOTES: A bit of Stat Mech Review: Grand Canonical Ensemble

NOTES: Drude Theory

NOTES: Energy Bands in Solids

NOTES: Energy Bands in Solids: Tight Binding Models 1

NOTES: Energy Bands in Solids: Tight Binding Models 2

NOTES: Energy Bands in Solids: Recap

NOTES: DOS for Tight Binding Models

NOTES: Some more Tight Binding examples

Problem Sets
Assignment 1
Solutions
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Solutions
Assignment 4
Solutions
Assignment 5
Solutions

Diagonalization Routines
Instructions for compilation and use.
jacobi.c
jacobi_test.c
nrutil.c
nrutil.h
input.txt
code to construct matrix to be diagonalized
(write to file `matrix.dat' which then plays role of index.txt)