Student Review

The Final: Thursday 4/30/2009, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, HCB 317

The Condensed Matter Final Exam will cover the following topics:

• Emergence 1/9

Granularity

Center of Mass

• Modern Physics 1/12

Importance of Quantum Mechanics

• Schrödinger Equation 1/14

• (Emergence Continued) 1/16

Phases of Matter & Transitions

• Broken Symmetry in Solids 1/21
  • Problem Set 1

Planck’s radiation formula

Wien's Law

Stefan-Boltzmann law

de Broglie wavelength

Interaction energy between atoms

Hydrogen Atom

• Van der Waal's Equation 1/23

• Mean Field Theory 1/26

• Simplest Model of Phase Transition 1/28
  • Problem Set 2

Isothermal compressibility

Behavior at liquid-gas critical point

• Phase Transitions 1/30

• Crystals 2/2

• Primitive Lattice Vector 2/4

• Scattering Methods 2/6
  • Problem Set 3

Weiss mean-field

Néel temperature

Spin Susceptibility $\chi$

Staggered susceptibility $\chi ^{\dagger }(h)={\frac {\partial m^{\dagger }}{\partial h^{\dagger }}}\;$

• Crystals 2/9

• Harmonic Approximation of 2 Modes 2/11

• UNTITLED 2/13
  • Problem Set 4

FCC structure

Miller indices

FCC: Cell within a cell

• Linear Differential Equations 2/16

• Crystal Lattice Vibrations 2/18

• Crystal Vibrations, Bose-Einstein Model 2/20

• Specific Heat of Phonons, Wein's Law 2/23

• Metals 2/25

• Electrons in Metals 2/27

• Quantum Hall Effect 3/2
  • Problem Set 5

Diatomic harmonic chain

Speed of sound

Brillouin zone

Debye temperature

Specific heat in a solid

Maximum phonon wavelength

• Electron Degeneracy Pressure 3/4

• Fermi Energy Derivation 3/6

• UNTITLED 3/20
  • Problem Set 6

Resistivity and Conductivity

The Hall effect

Fermi Energy Derivation

Fermi Velocity Derivation

Electron Density Derivation

Fermi Temperature

• Electronic Structure of Solids 3/23

• Review of Midterm I 3/25

Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Phase transition

Curie temperature

Pauli exclusion principle

Fermi Energy and density

Harmonic frequency

Specific Heat

• Electronic Structure in a Periodic Potential 3/27

• Band Structure 3/30

• "Doped" Semiconductors 4/3

• Semicondctors Continued 4/6

• (Animal) Magnetism 4/8
  • Problem Set 7

Energy band theory in solids

Tight-binding model

Electronic Density of State

Free electron model

• Mott Insulator 4/10

• Superfluidity 4/13

• Review of Midterm II 4/15

Thermodynamic Limit and Domain Wall

Magnetization of a ferromagnet and Curie temperature

Phonon density

Fermi energy, density, and temperature

• Superconductivity 4/17

• Superconductivity Continued 4/20

• Term Project

Extra credit will be awarded for answering bonus questions about the term projects