Solid State Physics 2 , 2022B

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• Course Plan

  
  

  Course Plan

  
  

  Course Plan

  Week	Topic	Source
  1	Semiconductors - intrinsic, extrinsic, calculating chemical potential	28/A&M
  2	Boltzmann's Equation - Semi-classical approximation, relaxation time approximation (RTA)	12,13/A&M
  3	Boltzmann's Equation - scattering mechanisms; Magnetic Hamiltonian, pert. theory.	16,29,31/A&M
  4	Magnetic Hamiltonian, pert. theory. Hound's Rules	31/A&M
  5	Curie's Law. Pauli paramagnetism. Exchange interaction.	31,32/A&M
  6	Super exchange, Curie-Weiss law, spin waves	32,33/A&M
  7	Superconductivity-Meisner effect, London Equation	2/Tinkham, 1/De Gennes
  8	Superconductivity - Introduction to BCS formalism.	3/Tinkham, 3-4/De Gennes
  9	BCS formalizm - Cooper pairs, energy gap, excitations	3/Tinkham, 3-4/De Gennes

  
  
  

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• Roster

  
  

  Roster

  Office hours

  Name	Day	Hours	Building/Room	E-mail
  Yosef Sutton	Wednesday	17:30-18:30	54/321	suttony@post.bgu.ac.il
  Prof. Moshe Schechter		Set by email	54/331	smoshe@bgu.ac.il

  Lecture/Tutorial

  	What?	Name	Day	Hours	Building/Room
  	Lecture	Prof. Moshe Schechter	Monday Tuesday	18:00-19:00 15:00-17:00	34/5 90/225
  	TA	Yosef Sutton	Wednesday	11:00-13:00	97/207

  Roster

• Course Policy

  
  

  Course Policy

  • The student MUST submit all homework (up to one assignment) in order to be able to take the final exam.
    
  • The assignments are submitted ELECTRONICALLY.
    
  • The homeworks will be checked: 15% MAGEN.
    
  • Final assignment : 85%. May include an oral exam.
    

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• Books and Additional Materials

  
  

  Books and Additional Materials

  Books:

  • "Solid state physics" by Ashcroft and Mermin - QC 176.A83 1976B or QC 176.A83
    
  • "Superconductivity of metals and alloys" by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
    
  • "Introduction to superconductivity" by Michael Tinkham

  Papers:

  • "Theory of Superconductivity" - The original BCS paper

  Additional Material (Lectures notes from an older course):

  • Semiconductors

  • P-N Junction

  • Diamagnetism & Paramagnetism

  • Exchange Interactions

  • Superconductivity

  
  

  Papers:

  "Theory of Superconductivity" - The original BCS paper.

  
  

  
  

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• Class Exercises

  
  

  Class Exercises

  TA notes

  Class Exercises

  • Class 1 - Cyclotron resonance File
  • Class 2 - Carrier statistics in doped semiconductors File
  • Class3 - Thomas-Fermi approximation File
  • Class 4 - Biased p-n junction File
  • Class 5 - Boltzmann equation File
  • Class6 - Itinerant Ferromagnetism File
  • Class7 - 1D Ising model File
  • Class8 - Magnons in FM File
  • Class 9 - Magnons in AFM File
  • Class 10 - London equations File
  • Class 11 - Cooper Pairs File
  • Class 12 - Origins of the attractive interaction File
  • Class 13 - Solution by canonical transformation File
  • Class Excercises - Yosef - 2022 Page

• Home Exercises

  
  

  Home Exercises

  Problem sets should be typed or scanned and submitted here

  Home Exercises

  • Problem set 1 - Cyclotron resonance Assignment
  • Problem set 2 - PN junction and Thomas-Fermi approximation Assignment
  • Problem set 3 - Boltzmanns equation Assignment
  • Problem set 4 - Magnetization Assignment
  • Problem set 5 - Itinerant and Heisenberg ferromagnetism Assignment
  • Problem Set 6 - Superconductivity Assignment

• Online lectures and TA sessions

  
  

  Online lectures and TA sessions

  Online lectures and TA sessions

• Additional Matirial

  
  

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