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Solid State B Syllabus
Prof. Eran Sela
eranst@post.tau.ac.il
2017-2018 Semester B
3 hours per week
Elective
3rd 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