The next lecture will take place on April 13th - enjoy your Easter-break!
The question hour before the exam will take place on Thursday May 7th at 15:00 in C4-118. Send your questions to me via mail in advance of the question hour.
The first lecture takes place on Monday January 5th. The last lecture takes place on Tuesday April 21st.
Mondays 14:15-16:00 in C4-118.
Tuesdays 12:15-14:00 in C4-118.
The exercises are not mandatory, but highly recommended to do. Solutions will be posted one week after the exercise.
Daphne Brattebraaten (daphnel dot brattebraaten at ntnu dot no) and Daniel Nordgård (daninor at ntnu dot no).
The exam will be a written one and takes place May 12th 15:00-19:00. You will be allowed to bring the mathematical formula collection by K. Rottman. No hand-written notes are allowed.
TFY4245: your grade is determined 100% from the written exam. You will receive a grade A-F.
FY8917: your grade is determined 100% from the written exam. You will receive a grade A-F.
Thursday May 7th 15:00 in C4-118. Send your questions to me in advance of the question hour via mail.
The curriculum is defined by the lecture notes and the exercises.
Note that the lecture notes will be continuously updated to correct typos that are discovered (if you see any, please send me an email or let me know in the lectures).
The curriculum covers the following topics:
Electrons in periodic crystals and second quantization
Optical processes and excitations in semiconductors
Plasmons, phonons, polarons, polaritons
Dielectrics and ferroelectrics
Landau theory
Superconductivity
Dia- and paramagnetism
Ferro- and antiferromagnetism
Magnetic resonance
The large majority of the curriculum will be covered in the lectures, while a small portion of the material might be left for self-study.
Any additional useful details for certain parts of the curriculum will be posted below.
Some books to complement the lecture notes and which have more details about certain topics (acquiring these books is not necessary to take the course):
C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics (New York, Wiley)
G. Grosso and G. Parravicini , Solid State Physics (Academic Press)
Rough plan for the semester - deviations may occur.
Week 2 - Chapter 1 + Chapter 2
Crystals, symmetries, reciprocal space, Bloch functions, nearly free-electron approximation
Week 3 - Chapter 2
Tight-binding approximation, second quantization, band-filling, material properties
Week 4 - Chapter 3
Semiconductors, elementary excitations, optical properties
Week 5 - Chapter 4
Metals, dielectric response, susceptibility with interactions
Week 6 - Chapter 4
Linear response, plasmons, Friedel oscillations
Week 7 - Chapter 4
Phonons
Week 8 - Chapter 4+5
Polarons, polaritons, electric polarization
Week 9 - Chapter 5
Dielectric constant, ferroelectric crystals, displacive transitions, modern theory of polarizibility
Week 10 - Chapter 5 and Chapter 6
Landau theory, pyro/piezoelectricity, superconductors and London equation
Week 11 - Chapter 6
Ginzburg-Landau theory, flux quantization and vortices,
Week 12 - Chapter 7
Paramagnetism, diamagnetism, exchange interaction
Week 13 - Chapter 7
Heisenberg model, Holstein-Primakoff representation
Week 14 - Easter holiday
Relax!
Week 15 - Easter holiday (self-study week)
Relax!
Week 16 - Chapter 7
Magnons, Mermin-Wagner theorem
Week 17 - Chapter 7
Magnetic resonance
The exercises are not mandatory, but highly recommended.
Exercise #1
Exercise #2
Exercise #3
Exercise #4
Exercise #5
Exercise #6
Exercise #7
Exercise #8
Exercise #9
Problem text #9 | Solution #9
Exercise #10
Problem text #10 | Solution #10
Old exams from the period 2008-2018.
Having looked at the problems given in older exams, problems such as the following are relevant and will be good practice to solve before this year's exam:
2014-2017: Problem 1 and 2
2018: Problem 1, 2 and 3.
The last problem of the older exam sets is typically about magnetism. This topic is certainly relevant for this year's exam, but the way the corresponding problem text has been formulated in older exams is less relevant.
