Student Review

Hello All! I would like to first say that this page is not official. I repeat: THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL!!!!!!

However, I wanted something that we could all add to and comment on. Each lecture Dr. Dobrosavljevic writes down a Title which serves as a topic or theme for the day. I have gone through my notebook and these are the lecture titles I have written down. If they are incorrect or lacking, please fill in what you have, my notes are not perfect. My idea is that we can use this page as a spring-board for discussion of the various topics and as a lead in to independent study. This is not meant to be as comprehensive as the lecture notes. This is not meant to be an exhaustive study guide. This is absolutely not meant to replace going to office hours if you need to. It is meant only to give us a more organized way of asking questions and getting help from each other.

With that being said, please feel free to add anything you want. If you have questions about something in the notes, ask. Someone may understand it better and be able to explain in a way that makes sense. If you feel that you have a really good understanding of a particular topic, offer us your interpretation. I would ask that everyone would sign their questions/comments, but other than that, have fun and Good Luck!!!

HollyBrown 15:10, 24 April 2009 (EDT)

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

• Review of Modern Physics 1/12

• Modern Physics Continued 1/14

• Emergence in Condensed Matter 1/16

• 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