Class Id: 9578
Days: TTh
Start Time: 03:00 PM
End Time: 04:20 PM
Building: JADWH
Room: 343
Course Id: 4267
Departments and Numbers: PHY 405
Area:
Title: Modern Physics I: Condensed-Matter Physics
Description: The course applies concepts from quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics to the properties of electrons in solids. Topics include phonons and lattice dynamics, electronic band structure, the tight-binding approximation, origin of exchange and magnetism, spin waves, Ginzburg Landau theory of phase transitions, and the BCS theory of superconductivity.
Prerequisites: PHY 208 and PHY 301 and PHY 305.
Professors: Jason R. Petta
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