Basic Information
Electron Gas# Second Quantization, Hartree-fock Approximation,ex- Change Interaction, Ground State Energy. Linear Response# Wave Vector And Frequency Dependent Dielectric Function E(k,w). Metals# Self- Consistent Approximation, Plasmons, Thomas-fermi Approximation, Correlation Functions S(k,w), Screening. Semiconductors# E(k,w), Optical Properties, Oscillator Strength, Interband Transitions. Phonons# Dynamical Matrix, Phonons, Inelastic Scattering of Thermal Neutrons, Optical Modes in Polar Crystals, Polaritons. Electron-
Faculty: Physics
|Graduate Studies
Pre-required courses
(118122 - Quantum Mechanics 3 and 118129 - Statistical Mechanics 2 and 118138 - Graduate Solid State)
Course with no extra credit
117113 118013