8.512 :: Theory of Solids

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Lecture

MW 1 - 2:30, Room 4-153

Discussion Session

F 1-2pm, Room 2-143

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Outline

1. Linear response theory
   Fluctuation dissipation theorem
   Scattering experiment
   f-sum rule
   
   
2. Physics of disorder
Kubo formula for conductivity
Conductance and sensitivity to boundary conditions
Scaling theory of localization
Mott variable range hopping
Quantum Hall Effect


3. Superconductor revisited
   Transverse response: Landau diamagnetism
   Microscopic derivation of London equation
        Effect of disorder
   Quasiparticles and coherence factors
   Ginzburg-Landau theory
   Vortices and type II superconductors
   Tunneling and Josephson effect
   
   
4. Magnetism
   Local moment magnetism, exchange interaction
   Ferro- and anti-ferro magnet and spin wave theory
   Band magnetism — Stoner theory, spin density wave
   
   
5. Local moment in metals
   Friedel sum rule
   Friedel-Anderson model
   Kondo problem: singlet ground state
   Kondo resonance
   
   
6. Fermi liquid theory
   Electron spectral function
   Quasi-particles and Landau interaction parameters
   Fermi liquid interpretation of the Kondo ground state