College Bulletin 2014-2015 
    
    Dec 04, 2024  
College Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS 135. Condensed Matter Physics


Crystal structure and diffraction, the reciprocal lattice and Brillouin zones, lattice vibrations and normal modes, phonon dispersion, Einstein and Debye models for specific heat, free electrons and the Fermi surface, electrons in periodic structures, the Bloch Theorem, band structure, semiclassical electron dynamics, semiconductors, magnetic and optical properties of solids, and superconductivity.
Prerequisites: PHYS 113  and PHYS 114 .
1 credit.
Not offered 2014-2015.
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