Università Roma Tre

Overview on condensed matter. Geometric description of crystals: direct and reciprocal lattices and Brillouin zone. Scattering of particles by crystals: x-rays, electrons and neutrons. Quasicrystals. Classification of crystalline solids and bonds. Adiabatic approximation (Born-Openheimer). Lattice vibrational dynamics, phonons. Specific heats of Einstein, Debye and electronic. Electrons in periodic potentials: the Bloch theorem. Theory of the free electron in metals. The many electrons Hamiltonian and one electron approximations: Hartree and Hartree Fock equation. Band theory in crystals: Tight Binding method and the nearly free electron approximation. Electronic properties of relevant crystals. Transport in metals. Intrinsic and doped semiconductors and transport. p-n junction. Superconductivity.

TESTO PRINCIPALE:
Giuseppe Grosso and Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini Solid State Physics Academic Press

ALTRI TESTI UTILIZZATI:
Neil W. Ashcroft N. David Mermin Solid State Physics Saunders College
Charles Kittel Introduzione alla Fisica Dello Stato Solido Casa Editrice Ambrosiana

WRITTEN NOTES, PRESENTATIONS AND EXERCISES will be published on the course web site
http://webusers.fis.uniroma3.it/~gallop/

Exercises on the following topics:
Geometric description of crystals: direct and reciprocal lattices and Brillouin zone. Scattering of particles by crystals: x-rays. Quasicrystals.
Lattice vibrational dynamics, phonons. Specific heats of Einstein, Debye and electronic.
Band theory of electrons in crystals: Tight Binding method and the nearly free electron approximation.
Intrinsic and doped semiconductors and transport.

EXERCISES published on the webpage of the class.
Exams of previous years available on the same webpage.