| Condens
Matter Physics I |
| Grades |
| Topics: |
| - The Bloch theorem |
| - Energy levels in a periodic
system |
| - The tight-binding approximation |
| - Bravais lattices |
| - Wigner-Seitz primitive cells |
| - Reciprocal lattices |
| - Brillouin zones |
| - Translational symmetry and its
quantum mechanical aspects |
| - The Sommerfeld free-electron
theory of metals |
| - Free electron gas and its
thermodynamic properties |
| - The one Electron approximation |
| - The Hartree-Fock approximation |
| - The density functional
theory and Kohn-Sham equations |
| References: |
| The main text of this course is
Ref.[1]. 1- G. Grosso and G. P. Parravicini, "Solid State Physics" (Academic Press 2000). |
| 2- N. W. Ashkroft and N. D.
Mermin, "Solid State Physics" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976). |
| 3- Michael Marder, "Condensed Matter Physics" (Wiley 2004). |