Table of Contents

Syllabus

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

Other

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Free electron gas

Phonons

Thermal Transport

Semiconductors

Disorder

AB effect

QHE

Tunneling

Superconductivity

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