Physics 211B : Lecture videos

LECTURE
DATE
TOPIC
1/5 crystallography review, tight binding models, graphene
1/7 Peierls phases, Hofstadter model, topology and geometry, SSH model
No. 3 1/12 SSH edge states, polarization, Jackiw-Rebbi domain wall states for d=1 Dirac
No. 4 1/14 Adiabatic theorem, Berry's phase, connection and curvature, Chern numbers
No. 5 1/19 Semiclassical dynamics, Boltzmann equation, collision integral, relaxation
time approximation, conductivity of normal metals, calculation of scattering time
No. 6 1/21 Screening, Boltzmann equation for holes, magnetoresistance and Hall effect, high fields,
thermal transport, Onsager relations, thermo/galvano-magnetic effects
No. 7 1/26 Second quantization, Hartree-Fock theory, HF theory for atoms
No. 8 1/28 HF for electron gas, DFT, Kohn-Sham equations, XC functional, LDA, applications
No. 9 2/2 Linear response within DFT, screening, Fermi liquids: adiabatic continuity, first law
No. 10 2/4 Low-T properties of Fermi liquids, Galilean invariance, thermodynamic stability
No. 11 2/9 Zero sound, χ(q,ω) for FL, linear response theory, Kramers-Kronig relations
No. 12 2/11 Spectral representation of response functions, fluctuation-dissipation theorem,
dynamic structure factor, scattering, sum rules, single mode approximation
No. 13 2/16 Superconductivity: phenomenology, thermodynamics, London equations
No. 14 2/18 Ginzburg-Landau theory, critical current, vortices, domain walls, magnetic properties
No. 15 2/23 Mixed phase of type-II materials: vortex penetration at Hc1, Abrikosov vortex lattice
No. 16 2/24 Bound states, Cooper problem, phonon-mediated attraction, BCS Hamiltonian
No. 17 2/25 Bogoliubov transformation, BCS ground state, gap equation, condensation energy, coherence factors, number-phase relation
No. 18 3/2 BCS at T > 0: gap equation, Landau coefficients, paramagnetic susceptibility, finite momentum condensates, superfluid density, effects of Coulomb repulsion (λ and μ*)
No. 19 3/4 Many electron Hamiltonian, Zeeman, spin-orbit, periodic table, magnetic properties of atoms and ions, diamagnetism and paramagnetism, crystal field splittings
No. 20 3/9 Stoner theory of moment formation in the Hubbard model
No. 21 3/11 Heisenberg model, mean field theory of magnetic order, susceptibility, spin wave theory