Solid State B Syllabus

Dr. Moshe Ben Shalom

moshebs@tauex.tau.ac.il

Semester B, 3 hours per week

Elective, 3^rd year, given yearly

Syllabus

Electronic band structure picture in crystals.

Insulators, semiconductors, conductors, graphene.

Electronic transport, Drude model, Einstein relations, mobility, Hall effect.

Electrons and holes, effective mass, interaction with light.

Fermi gas, density of states, two-dimensional electron gas.

Quantum transport - Resistance of ballistic conductors, Quantum Point Contact, Landauer formula.

Quantum Hall Effect. QHE in graphene.

Superconductivity: London theory, thermodynamics, Ginsburg Landau theory, flux quantization.

Josephson junction, SQUID, quantum bits.

Magnetism: diamagnetism and paramagnetism, magnetism of itinerant electrons, magnetic interactions, magnetic order, mean field, spin waves.

Literature

The Oxford solid state basics, Simon.

Solid state physics, Aschroft / Mermin.

Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems, Datta.

Introduction to superconductivity, Tinkham.