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Electronic Theory of Solids

Prof. Arghya Taraphder · IIT Kharagpur

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Lectures

WEEK 1

  1. Lecture 01: Free electrons: Drude Theory Video
  2. Lecture 02: Weidemann Franz Law Video
  3. Lecture 03: Drude Model continued: Hall Effect Video
  4. Lecture 04: Schrodinger Equation: Boundary Conditions Video
  5. Lecture 05: Density of States Video

WEEK 2

  1. Lecture 06: "Properties of Degenerate Fermi Gas " Video
  2. Lecture 07: Statistics Fermi-Dirac distribution and Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution: comparison and Specific Heat Video
  3. Lecture 08: Sommerfeld Expansion & Band Formation: Temperature dependent densities, Chemical Potential, Specific Heat Video
  4. Lecture 09: Bonding and Band Formation: N=2 solid Molecular Orbitals, Linear combinations of Atomic Orbitals(LCAO) Video
  5. Lecture 10: Variational Method: Molecular Orbitals, Bonding and anti-bonding Orbitals Video

WEEK 3

  1. Lecture 11 : Bonding and Band Formation(LCAO) Video
  2. Lecture 12 : Bonding and Band Formation(LCAO) (Contd.) Video
  3. Lecture 13 : Bloch's Theorem Video
  4. Lecture 14 : Proof of Bloch's Theorem Video
  5. Lecture 15 : N atoms Solid Video

WEEK 4

  1. Lecture 16 : Brillouin Zones Video
  2. Lecture 17 : Tight binding: lattice with a basis Video
  3. Lecture 18 : Fermi Surfaces Video
  4. Lecture 19 : Lattice with basis:Energy Spectrum Video
  5. Lecture 20 : Energy spectrum (Contd.) Video

WEEK 5

  1. Lecture 21 : Graphene and Fermi Surfaces Video
  2. Lecture 22 : Fermi Surfaces Instabilities Video
  3. Lecture 23 : Low Dimensional Systems Video
  4. Lecture 24 :Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE) Video
  5. Lecture 25 : Integer Quantum Hall Effect Continued Video

WEEK 6

  1. Lecture 26 : Electron in a Strong Magnetic Field and IQHE Video
  2. Lecture 27 : Spintronics: Introduction and Applications Video
  3. Lecture 28 : Magnetism Video
  4. Lecture 29 : Magnetism: Quantum Theory Video
  5. Lecture 30 : Hund's Rule Video

WEEK 7

  1. Lecture 31 : Curie's Law and Van Vleck Paramagnetism Video
  2. Lecture 32 : Curie's law for any J, Susceptibility Video
  3. Lecture 33 : Susceptibility and Thermal Properties Video
  4. Lecture 34 : Adiabatic Demagnetisation Video
  5. Lecture 35 : Pauli Paramagnetism Video

WEEK 8

  1. Lecture 36: Paramagnetism of metals Video
  2. Lecture 37: Exchange interaction for 2 electrons Video
  3. Lecture 38: Exchange interactions of different types Video
  4. Lecture 39: Magnetic Order Video
  5. Lecture 40: Magnetic Order of different types & Heisenberg model Video

WEEK 9

  1. Lecture 41: Ising Model Video
  2. Lecture 42: Mean Field Theory Video
  3. Lecture 43: Spontaneous magnetisation & 1D Ising Model Video
  4. Lecture 44: Symmetries of Ising model, Exact Solution Video
  5. Lecture 45: Ferromagnetic Heisenberg Model Video

WEEK 10

  1. Lecture 46: Ground State & Magnons/Excitations Video
  2. Lecture 47: Superconductivity Video
  3. Lecture 48: London Equation Video
  4. Lecture 49: Meisner Effect from London Equation Video
  5. Lecture 50: Cooper problem Video

WEEK 11

  1. Lecture 51: Instability of the Fermi Surface Video
  2. Lecture 52: Ground state of cooper problem, BCS Ground state, Video
  3. Lecture 53: BCS Theory, Excitation Spectrum Video
  4. Lecture 54: BCS Video
  5. Lecture 55: Tunneling and Ginzberg Landau Theory Video

WEEK 12

  1. Lecture 56: Electrodynamics of Superconductivity Video
  2. Lecture 57: Type II superconductors Video
  3. Lecture 58: Josephson junction Video
  4. Lecture 59: Vortices, SQUID, Quantum Supremacy & Qubits Video
  5. Lecture 60: Topological state of matter, XY Model, Topological Insulators Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 08-02-2021 Video
  2. Live Session 10-03-2021 Video
  3. Live Session 31-03-2021 Video
  4. Live Session 17-02-2020 Video
  5. Live Session 03-09-2022 Video
  6. Live Session 17-02-2025 Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kharagpur
Department
Physics
Teacher
Prof. Arghya Taraphder
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics
Source
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