Semiconductors lecture slides

You can download a copy of my lecture slides on semiconductors here. I recommend reading chapters 28 and 29 from A&M.

Lecture slides on superconductivity

They are available here.
Reading chapter 34 of Ashcroft and Mermin is highly recommended (essential).

Updated lecture slides

The latest version of my lecture slides on magnetism are available here.

Lecture slides

You can download a copy of my latest lecture slides here.

Lecture slides on paramagnetism and diamagnetism

You can download my lecture slides on paramagnetism and diamagnetism from here.

Azulene vs. anthracene

I posted about this on condensed concepts.

Lecture slides on SdH and dHvA

Tomorrow or next monday we will start to talk about quantum magnetic oscillations and determination of the Fermi surface. Much of this will follow chapter 14 of Ashcroft and Mermin.  Here is the current version of the slides.

Lecture notes on transport theory

Here are the lecture notes on Transport properties of metals in the Bloch model. They follow Ashcroft and Mermin closely. We will start on this tomorrow or wednesday.

Lecture slides on semi-classical electron dynamics

Here is the current version of the slides.
They follow Ashcroft and Mermin closely so reading chapter 12 is an excellent idea.

Lecture slides on metals and insulators

This week we will start to look at semi-classical transport theory within the Bloch model, following chapter 12 in Ashcroft and Mermin. First we will review the key differences in the band structures and band fillings between metals and insulators. Here are the relevant lecture slides.
Reading chapter 12 would be excellent preparation.

Lecture slides on quasicrystals

Tomorrows lecture will consider the fascinating subject of quasicrystals, the subject of last years Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Here are the lecture slides.

This is not covered in Ashcroft and Mermin, for profound reasons.
Instead you could read Section 5.8 of Marder, or the notes on the Nobel Prize site.
The lesson is don't believe everything the textbooks (and your lecturers) say!

Lecture slides for the Hückel method

Tomorrow we will learn about the Hückel method, which describes the molecular orbitals of conjugated organic molecules and bears strong similarities to the Tight-Binding method. You can download a copy of my lecture slides here.

Lecture Slides on the tight-binding method

You can download my lecture slides on the tight-binding method from here. We will probably start to cover this topic in this morning's lecture.

Latest Lecture Slides

Today we may start looking at a specific application of Bloch's theorem to the case of an electron in a weak periodic potential. You can get a copy of my latest lecture slides here.

Bloch theorem lecture slides

Today will start looking at the Bloch theorem. You can get a copy of my lecture slides here.

Crystallography Lecture Slides

You can download a copy of my slides here for today's and tomorrow's lectures.

Crystal Structures lecture slides

For the next part of the course we will be looking at crystal structures. You can download my lecture slides, which are based on chapters 4-5 of Ashcroft & Mermin, from here. I would recommend reading these chapters from the textbook in advance.

Lecture slides on Sommerfeld model

In the second lecture today we will start to discuss the Sommerfeld model. The lecture slides largely follow Chapter 2 in Ashcroft and Mermin and so reading it is an excellent idea.

Slides for Drude lectures

Here is the current version of the slides. Almost all of it is in Ashcroft and Mermin, except some of the experimental data.

Slides for lecture on 10 key points

In tomorrow's lecture I will highlight 10 key ideas at the heart of condensed matter physics.
Here are the slides.

If there is time I will then start to introduce the Drude model. Reading chapter 1 of Ashcroft an Mermin is highly desirable.