Solid State B Syllabus

 Prof. Eran Sela

eranst@post.tau.ac.il

2017-2018 Semester B

3 hours per week

Elective

3^rd year, given yearly

  Course overview – short abstract

Semiconductors: intrinsic and extrinsic, impurities, pn junctions, in and out of equilibrium, Einstein relations; Magnetism: diamagnetism and paramagnetism, magnetism of itinerant electrons, magnetic interactions, magnetic order, spin waves; Superconductivity: London theory, thermodynamics, Ginsburg Landau theory, Josephson junctions, flux quantization, Little Parks experiment.

Assessment: coursework and grade structure

Assignments – 10%

Final exams – 90%

Week-by-week content, assignments and reading

Week 1: Introduction to semiconductors

Week 2: Density in the presence of impurities

Week 3: Non-homogeneous semiconductors

Week 4: pn-junctions

Week 5: Thermodynamic magnetism

Week 6: Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism

Week 7: Pauli paramagnetism and Landau diamagnetism

Week 8: Kondo effect

Week 9: Ground state of quantum ferromagnets and antiferromagnets

Week 10: Magnetism – high temperature expansion, Phase transitions

Week 11: Superconductivity introduction

Week 12: London theory and thermodynamics

Week 13: Ginsburg Landau theory

Required text

N. W. Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin, Solid State Physics, 539.1 ASH (main text) C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, 539.1 KIT (Supplemntary text) C. Kittel, Quantum Theory of Solids, 519.1 KIT (Advanced) J.M. Ziman, Principles of the theory of solids, 539.1 ZIM (Advanced) P.G. de-Gennes, Superconductivity of metals and alloys, New York: Benjamin, 1966 M. Tinkham, Introduction to superconductivity, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996