printer friendly pageAPPPHYS 273: Solid State Physics II
Introduction to the many-body aspects of crystalline solids. Second quantization of phonons, anharmonic effects, polaritons, and scattering theory. Second quantization of Fermi fields. Electrons in the Hartree-Fock and random phase approximation; electron screening and plasmons. Magnetic exchange interactions. Electron-phonon interaction in ionic/covalent semiconductors and metals; effective attractive electron-electron interactions, Cooper pairing, and BCS description of the superconducting state. Prerequisite:
APPPHYS 272 or
PHYSICS 172.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Hwang, H. (PI)
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