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Condensed Matter Physics

Lecture Notes

Oxford Solid State Physics

Instructed by Steven H. Simon.

The course webpage is here.

Lecture notes available here, and some errors noted here.

Cambridge Lectures on Solid State Physics

Instructed by David Tong.

The course webpage is here.

Full lecture notes available here.

The content is divided into 4 parts:

  1. Particles in Magnetic Fields: Gauge field, gauge transformation; Landau levels, degeneracy; Aharonov-Bohm effect; Magnetic monopoles, Dirac quantisation; Spin in a magnetic field, spin precession.
  2. Band Structure: Electrons in one dimension, tight-binding, nearly free electrons, Floquet matrix, Bloch’s theorem; Bravais lattices, cubic, BCC and FCC, the Wigner-Seitz cell, the reciprocal lattice, the Brillouin zone; band structure, crystal momentum, crystallographic notation, nearly free electrons in 3d, tight-binding in 3d; Wannier functions, localised and extended stats, LCAO.
  3. Electron Dynamics in Solids: Fermi surfaces, metals vs insulators, graphene; Bloch electrons; effective velocity and mass, semi-classical equations of motion, Bloch oscillations, holes, Drude model; magnetic fields, cyclotron frequency, Onsager quantisation, de Haas-van Alphen oscillations.
  4. Phonons: Monotonic chain; diatomic chain, optical and accoustic bands, Peierls instability; Quantization; Field theory.

Videos

Oxford Solid State Basics By Steven H. Simon

  1. Introduction to Condensed Matter; Einstein Model of Vibrations in Solids
    • Video download url available here
  2. Debye Model of Vibrations in Solids; Drude Theory of Electrons in Metals
    • Video download url available here
  3. Drude Theory of Electrons in Metals / Sommerfeld (Free Electron) Theory of Electrons in Metals
    • Video download url available here
  4. Sommerfeld (Free Electron) Theory of Electrons in Metals
    • Video download url available here
  5. Chemistry in a Nutshell
    • Video download url available here
  6. Microscopic View of Vibrations in Solids in One Dimension I: The Monatomic Harmonic Chain
    • Video download url available here
  7. Microscopic View of Vibrations in Solids in One Dimension II: The Diatomic (Alternating) Harmonic Chain
    • Video download url available here
  8. Microscopic View of Electrons in Solids in One Dimension: Tight Binding Chain
    • Video download url available here
  9. Geometry of Solids I: Crystal Structure in Real Space
    • Video download url available here
  10. Geometry of Solids II: Real Space And Reciprocal Space
    • Video download url available here
  11. Reciprocal Space and Scattering
    • Video download url available here
  12. Scattering Experiments II
    • Video download url available here
  13. Scattering Experiments III
    • Video download url available here
  14. Waves in Reciprocal Space
    • Video download url available here
  15. Nearly Free Electron Model
    • Video download url available here
  16. Band Structure and Optical Properties of Solids
    • Video download url available here
  17. Dynamics of Electrons in Bands
    • Video download url available here
  18. Semiconductor Devices and Introduction to Magnetism
    • Video download url available here
  19. Magnetic Properties of Atoms
    • Video download url available here
  20. Collective Magnetism
    • Video download url available here
  21. Mean Field Theory and Closing Thoughts
    • Video download url available here

Reference Books