====== Syllabus ======
  - Fundamentals of band structure
      * Free electron gas
      * Bloch theorem
  - Boltzmann transport equation
      * motion in constant E field → Drude result
      * diffusion
      * phonon scattering mechanism
  - Quantum transport
     * elastic vs inelastic scattering
     * 1d wire no scattering
     * Landauer formalism
  - Quantum to classical crossover
     * Transmission probabilities
     * Resonant tunneling
     * Incoherent scattering
     * Localization
  - Transport in magnetic field - topological phenomena
     * Vector potential and electron phase
     * Examples: AB effect & QHE
  - Tunneling
     * WKB approx & STM
     * Fermi golden rule
     * Coulomb blockade (class project)
  - Superconductivity
     * Meissner effect, flux quantization, length scales
     * BCS theory
     * High temperature superconductors


Other
     * Metal-Insulator transition
     * Difference between Mott insulator and Anderson localization
     * Thomas-Fermi screening
     * Other oscillatory B-field effects (Shubnikov-de Haas, de Haas-van Alphen, etc)
     * Coulomb blockade

====== Web and other resources ======
  *Janet's [[http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~tatej/COURSES/ph575/doku.php|PH575 class]] and see the "Links" page there.
  *{{::harmans_meso.pdf|Cees Harmans' mesoscopic physics notes}}
  *[[http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html|Fundamental constants]] from NIST (2014 CODATA recommended values)
===== Free electron gas =====
   * Simulations from Cornell University. [[http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/sss/drude/drude.html|Drude model]] shows motion of 8 electrons in crossed E and B fields. Other useful ones are [[http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/sss/bloch/bloch.html|Bloch]], [[http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/sss/peierls/peierls.html|Peierls]], [[http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/sss/ziman/ziman.html|Ziman]]
   * Good [[http://www.slideshare.net/jongyeonglee1/solid-state-physics-04free-electrons-in-metals|free electron summary]].
===== Phonons =====
    * Dispersion relations and animations of [[http://www.phonon.fc.pl/index.php|phonon modes]] in several different crystals.  Also surface phonons. 
    * [[http://wolf.ifj.edu.pl/phonon/animation/]], animations of phonon modes
    *[[http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/phet normal-modes]], simulation of vibrational normal modes from PHET project
    * Java applet with interactive features demonstrating acoustic and optic [[http://dept.kent.edu/projects/ksuviz/leeviz/phonon/phonon.html|phonon modes]] of diatomic chain (requires java). 
===== CNT Related Papers =====
    * Carbon Nanotube Quantum Resistors [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.139.3328&rep=rep1&type=pdf]]
    * I found this discussion of [[http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/ballistic-G0.pdf|two conducting channels in carbon nanotubes]] helpful.  -Dan
    * [[http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/nl070746w|Localization in SWCNT transport]]
===== Thermal Transport =====
    * [[https://www.princeton.edu/~npo/SurveyTopics/WF/Wiedemann.html| W-F law]] (N.P. Ong, Princeton)
===== Semiconductors =====
    * Chapter 8 of our Kittel text has the very basics you need to know.
    * Nice compilation of [[http://www.ioffe.rssi.ru/SVA/NSM/|semiconductor properties from the Ioffe Institute]] in Russia.  //m//<sub>eff</sub>, band gaps, for Si, GaAs and others.
    * For II-VI (and other) semiconductors, see the page by [[http://www.semiconductors.co.uk|D. W. Palmer]]
===== Disorder =====

    * {{::mott_-_variable_range_hopping.pdf|Mott variable range hopping}}

===== AB effect =====

    * {{::schwartzchid_pt39_1986_17_ab_effect_normal_metal.pdf|Physics Today article on AB effect in normal metal}}
    * {{:feynman_abeffect.pdf|Feynman on AB effect}}

===== QHE =====
  * {{::vonklitzing_qhe_pt_38_1985_17.pdf|Schwarzchild PT 1985}} Nobel article
  * [[http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/56/8/10.1063/1.1611351|Avron PT 2003]] - Physics Today Article on the QHE
  * [[http://zimp.zju.edu.cn/~xinwan/qm2/note/MacDonald91.pdf|Macdonald]]'s article on the integer QHE and other QHEs phenomena is at quite a high level, but worth looking at because it addresses many of the complexities. Note p197 is misplaced in this version.
  * The [[http://qdev.nbi.ku.dk/student_theses/marcuslabthese/|Marcus group theses]] have many studies of the QHE and other mesoscopic systems.  In particular, I found [[http://qdev.nbi.ku.dk/student_theses/pdf_files/McClure_Thesis.pdf|McClure's thesis]] helpful.

===== Tunneling =====
  * Review of [[http://neutrons.phy.bnl.gov/presentations/graphene/ZhuPark_MaterialsToday2006.pdf|magnetic tunnel junctions]]
  * Review of [[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:8609122|scanning tunneling microscopy]] with particular reference to Fe-based superconductors by J. Hoffman, Harvard.

===== Superconductivity =====
    *Superconductivity at 203K (under pressure) in HS system: [[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7567/full/nature14964.html]]
====== Journals ======
Free access (usually) from OSU domain. If not in OSU domain, access from the OSU Library page. If OSU does not subscribe, then request article via inter-library loan. 
  * [[https://journals.aps.org/prx/|Physical Review X]]
  * [[http://www.sciencemag.org/journals|Science]]
  * [[http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html|Nature]]
  * Nature Physics
  * Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
  * Physical Review Letters
  * Nano Letters
  * [[http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl|Applied Physics Letters]]