PHY 752 Solid State Physics

MWF 11-11:50 AM OPL 107 http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie/s11phy752/

Instructor: Natalie Holzwarth Phone:758-5510 Office:300 OPL e-mail:natalie@wfu.edu


General Information

This course is a self-contained course on Solid State Physics, taught at the graduate level using the textbook Electronic Structure, Basic Theory and Practical Methods by Richard M. Martin, Cambridge U. Press, 2004 ("RMM") and on journal articles.


It is likely that your grade for the course will depend upon the following factors:

Problem sets*

35%

Presentation

15%

Exams

50%

*In general, there will a new assignment after each lecture, so that for optimal learning, it would be best to complete each assignment before the the next scheduled lecture. According to the honor system, all work submitted for grading purposes should represent the student's own best efforts. This means that students who work together on homework assignments should all contribute roughly equally and independently verify all derivations and results. Homeworks may be turned in 1 lecture past their due date without grade penalty. After that, the homework grade will be reduced by 10% for each succeeding late date.


Course schedule for 2011

(Preliminary schedule -- subject to frequent adjustment.)
   
Date
Reading
Topic
Assign.
01-12 (Wed)
RMM 1-3
From atomic structure to band structure
01-14 (Fri)
RMM 3 & A3
Feynman-Helman theorem and the adiabatic approximation
#2
01-17 (Mon)
No class MKL Holiday
01-19 (Wed)
RMM 3 & 4
Feynman-Helman theorem and introduction to crystal lattices
#2
01-21 (Fri)
RMM 4
Introduction/review of crystal lattices
#3
01-24 (Mon)
RMM 4
Reciprocal lattices and X-ray diffraction
#4
01-26 (Wed)
RMM 4
Ewald summation methods
#5
01-28 (Fri)
RMM 14
Orbital analysis of electronic structure.
#6
01-31 (Mon)
RMM 14
Orbital analysis of electronic structure.
#7
02-02 (Wed)
RMM 14
Tight binding analysis of graphite
#8
02-04 (Fri)
RMM 12
Plane wave bands
#9
02-07 (Mon)
RMM 6 & 7
Density functional theory
#10
02-09 (Wed)
RMM 6 & 7
Density functional theory
02-11 (Fri)
No class
Begin take-home exam
EXAM
02-14 (Mon)
RMM 8
Exchange-correlation -- continue take-home exam
EXAM
02-16 (Wed)
No Class
Continue take-home exam
EXAM
02-18 (Fri)
RMM 16
Self-consistency -- Take-home exam due
#11
02-21 (Mon)
RMM 16
LAPW -- method and the WIEN2k code
#12
02-23 (Wed)
RMM 16-17
LAPW -- method and the WIEN2k code
#12
02-25 (Fri)
RMM 16-17
LAPW -- method and the WIEN2k code
#12
02-28 (Mon)
RMM 10-11
Atoms and Pseudopotentials
#13
03-02 (Wed)
RMM 10-11
Atoms and Pseudopotentials
03-04 (Fri)
RMM 10-11
Atoms and Pseudopotentials
 
03-07 (Mon)
No Class Spring Break
03-09 (Wed)
No Class Spring Break
03-11 (Fri)
No Class Spring Break
 
03-14 (Mon)
RMM 10-11
Pseudopotential construction and properties
#14
03-16 (Wed)
RMM 10-11
PAW method
#15
03-18 (Fri)
RMM 10-11
PAW method
03-21 (Mon)
No Class March APS Meeting
EXAM
03-23 (Wed)
No Class March APS Meeting
EXAM
03-25 (Fri)
No Class March APS Meeting
EXAM
03-28 (Mon)
RMM 12-13
Electronic structure calculations -- take-home exam due
#16
03-30 (Wed)
RMM 12-13
Electronic structure within PAW formalism using PWscf code
#17
04-01 (Fri)
RMM 12-13
Tutorial on Atompaw and PWscf codes
04-04 (Mon)
RMM 12-13
Tutorial on Atompaw and PWscf codes
04-06 (Wed)
Electronic structure of defects in otherwise perfect lattices
#18
04-08 (Fri)
Electronic structure of defects in otherwise perfect lattices
04-11 (Mon)
No class
04-13 (Wed)
No class
04-15 (Fri)
Electronic structure of defects in otherwise perfect lattices
04-18 (Mon)
Handout
Micron-scale theory of p-n junctions in semiconductors
04-20 (Wed)
Lecture notes
Electronic structure of interfaces
04-22 (Fri)
No Class Good Friday Holiday
04-25 (Mon)
Brief overview of Hubbard Model
04-27 (Wed)
Brief overview of Monte Carlo Methods
05-06 (Fri)
Presentations Start at 10 AM


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