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Chung-Yu Mou 03-5742537 office: 物理系 514 室

目標

凝態物理是一個範圍極廣並且與實驗關連性強的領域，本課程為物理所的基礎課程，主要的目標是在使學生能掌握凝體物理共通之基本原理，因而能進一步掌握與了解凝體相關的實驗現象。

(I) midterm: Nov. 18, final: Jan. 10 (2011)

• Introduction to condensed matter physics
• Description of orders and atomic structures
  -- Crystal Lattices and Structures
  -- Scattering and Experimental determination
  -- Noncrstalline State: liquid crystals、polymer、quasi-crystals 、liquids and glass
  
• Mechanical and dynamical properties of atomic structures
  -- elasticity
  -- lattices waves、second quantization and phonons
  -- Ginzburg-Landau theory of phase transition
  -- defect、dislocations and melting: solids versus crystal、Mermin-Wagner theorem and 2D melting
  
• Electronic structures
  -- Failure of free-electron model in crystal
  -- Bloch theorem and non-interacting electrons
  -- methods for calculating band structures
  -- effects of electron-electron interactions: Hartree-Fock equations Density functional theory
  -- Correlation effects: metals、insulators and Mott physics
  
• Electron Transport
  -- semi-classical electron dynamics
  -- Boltzman equation
  -- Quantum Many-particle theory and Linear Responses and non-thermodynamic measurement
  -- Fermi liquids theory
  -- microscopic theories of conduction
  -- quantum transport in one dimension
  
• Optical Properties
  -- general characterization of optical response and experimental Methods (Raman spectrum & photoemission)
  -- optical properties of insulators、semiconductors and metals
  
• Magnetism
-- diamagnetism and paramagnetism
-- magnetic interactions: exchanges、RKKY interaction、Kondo effect
-- ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism: exchanges and spin models、mean-field theory、Stoner criterion、spin waves

• Quantum Hall effect
  -- de Haas-van Alphen effect
  -- Landau Levels、Integer Effect and Laughlin’s arguement
  -- Laughlin’s wavefunction and Fractional Effect
  
• Fluids and superfluidity
  -- Newtonian fluid: Viscosity and Navier-Stokes equations
  -- Superfluid in 4He: two-fluid model、second sound and
  superfluidity
• Superconductivity
  -- macroscopic phenomenology of superconductivity
  -- Ginzburg-Landau Theory and vortex phases
  -- microscopic theory: BCS theory
  -- high temperature superconductors
  

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