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-====== Calendar ====== +Week 1^^Topic^Reading^Assignments| 
-^Day^^Topic^Reading^Summary^Assignments| +|1|M 3/28|Physics Comp Exam - No class| |[[hw1|HW #1]]| 
-| |M 9/30|PHYSICS COMP EXAM| |No class| +|[[2]]|W 3/30|Sommerfield model|A&M Ch 2-3, Kittel Ch 6| | 
-|[[1]]|W 10/2|Sommerfield model|A&M Ch 2-3, Kittel Ch 6|{{::day1.pdf|}}: Gas of free electrons trapped in a 3d potential. Fermi Energy. Orders of magnitude. Introduce periodic potential.|[[hw1|HW #1]]+|[[3]]|F 4/1|Occupation function|A&M Ch 8 & Ch 12| |
-|[[2]]|F 10/4|Occupation function|A&M Ch 8 & Ch 12|{{::day2.pdf|}}: Drawing the occupation function in k-space, Bloch's theorem, free electron gas at T = 0, electron velocity, electron response to E-field, relaxation time, calculating a current.| | +
-^Day^^Topic^Reading^Summary^Assignments| +
-|[[3]]|M 10/7|Phonon scattering |A&M Ch 13|{{::day3_2013.pdf|}}: Drude result for calculating current density. Phonon review, {{:l24.pdf|ph575 notes24}}. Fermi Golden Rule for scattering probability. Transition matrix element for electron-phonon interaction. Conservation of momentum/energy. Scattering probability. |[[hw2|HW #2]]|+
  
-====== Calendar ======+^Week 2^^Topic^Reading^Assignments| 
 +|[[4]]|M 4/4|Phonon scattering |A&M Ch 13|[[hw2|HW #2]]| 
 +|[[5]]|W 4/6|Phonon scattering|A&M Ch 13| | 
 +|[[6]]|F 4/8|Ballistic Transport|Kittel Ch 18 (Nanostructures)| |
  
-Level 2 header - not in ToC?  +^Week 3^^Topic^Reading^Assignments| 
-Let'make a new page [[hwk|homework page is new]]+|[[7]]|M 4/11|Adding scattering|Kittel Ch 18 (Nanostructures)|[[hw3|HW #3]]| 
 +|[[8]]|W 4/13|Variable range hopping. Mott Insulators|{{:mott_-_variable_range_hopping.pdf|Mott'txt bk}}, A&M p340 & 542| | 
 +|[[9]]|F 4/15|Electrons in B-field|Feynman Lecture on AB effect}} | |
  
 +^Week 4^^Topic^Reading^Summary^Assignments|
 +|[[10]]|M 4/18|Quantum Hall Effect|{{::qhe_article.pdf|Article 1}}, [[http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/56/8/10.1063/1.1611351|Article 2]] |Aharanov-Bohm effect. QM description of cyclotron orbits. Landau levels. Fluctuation in electron density (constant chemical potential). The QHE experiment. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Hall_effect|Animation]]. QHE explanation based on ExB drift velocity.  |[[hw4|HW #4]]|
 +|[[11]]|W 4/20|Quantum Hall Effect|ee|{{::day10_2013.pdf|}}: Aharanov-Bohm effect. QM description of cyclotron orbits. Landau levels. Fluctuation in electron density (constant chemical potential). The QHE experiment. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Hall_effect|Animation]]. QHE explanation based on ExB drift velocity. | |
 +|12|F 4/22|Tunneling devices|[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling#cite_note-21|Tunneling (wikipedia)]]|{{::day11_2013b.pdf|}}: Importance of tunneling device in technology. Calculating I_tunnel. Examples: STM microscopy, STM spectroscopy, tunnel magnetoresistance, tunnel diodes.|{{::hw4solns.pdf|}}|
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 +^Week 5^^Topic^Reading^Assignments|
 +|[[13]]|M 4/25|Superconductivity|Ibach chapter 10|[[hw5|HW #5]]|
 +|[[14]]|W 4/27|Superconductivity|Ibach chapter 10| |
 +|[[15]]|F 4/29 |Talks | | |
  
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