title – semester
Chapter 1
Group Theory
Crystal lattice
Brillouin zones of cubic Bravais lattices
Band structure approximations
H
2
+
molecule
Band Symmetry
Band filling
Band structures - Na & Mg
Wannier function
Stability of material - cohesive forces
Chapter 2
Semiconductors - excitation spectrum
Semiconductor doping
Chapter 3
Simple metals
Jellium model - Hartree-Fock approximation
Excitations - electron-hole and plasmons
Charge screening in metals
Peierls instability
Chapter 4
Quantum Hall Effect
Chapter 5
Fermi Liquid
Chapter 6
Transport
Matthiessen's rule & Ioffe-Regel limit
Chapter 7
Stoner Ferromagnetism and generalized susceptibility