Archived: September 25, 2021
Course Code: PHY 5111
Course Title: Condensed Matter Physics
Master of Science in Physics
Academic Year: 2019-2020
Semester: 1 Credit: 03
All students attending the course for credit must fill the online check-in form (availabe here) with a pseudonym which will be used in posting their coursework and class test results. No coursework or class test result will be published without a pseudonym.
Course Convenor
- Dr. Mohammad Abdur Rashid
- Room # 520
- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Academic Building
- Email: rashid@just.edu.bd
- Phone: +880-421-62030 Ext: 310
Mandatory Reading
| Week | Chapter | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 6 | Condensed Matter Physics – Michael P. Marder |
| 02 | 7 | |
| 03 | 8 | |
| 04 | 9 | |
| 1 | Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules – Robert G. Parr and Weitao Yang | |
| 05 | 2 | |
| 06 | 3 | |
| 07 | 7 | |
| 08 | 8 | |
| 09 | 14 | Introduction to Solid State Physics – Charles Kittel (8th edition) |
| 10 |
Recorded Lectures
- CMP_OC01: single-electron model, many free fermions, Fermi gas, density of states [Video 63 min] [Slides]
- CMP_OC02: Fermi surface, Fermi energy, Fermi-Dirac distribution, specific heat for free Fermi gas [Video 74.5 min]
- CMP_OC03: Bloch's theorem in one dimension [Video 70.5 min] [Slides]
- CMP_OC04: Implication of Bloch's theorem, Kronig-Penney model [Video 47.5 min]
- CMP_OC06: Nearly free electrons [Video 63 min] [Slides]
- CMP_OC07: Tightly bound electrons [Video 63 min] [Slides]
- CMP_OC08: Born-Oppenheimer approximation, Hartree equation [Video 30.5 min] [Slides]
- CMP_OC09: Hartree–Fock approximation, Restricted Hartree-Fock approximation [Video 58 min] [Slides]
- CMP_OC10: Dirac notation, density matrices [Video 69 min] [Slides]
- CMP_OC11: Thomas-Fermi model, Hohenberg-Kohn theorems [Video 58.5 min] [Slides]
- CMP_OC12: v- and N-representabile electron density, Levy constrained-search formulation [Video 48.5 min]
- CMP_OC13: Kohn–Sham method [Video 52 min] [Slides]
- CMP_OC15: Spin-density functional theory, XC functional: LDA, LSDA, GGA [Video 56 min] [Slides]
- CMP_OC16: Dielectric function, plasma frequency [Video 56.5 min] [Annotation]
Related Resources
- Video lectures on Quantum Mechanics: Mohammad Abdur Rashid
- Video lectures on Solid State Physics: Sandro Scandolo (ICTP, Italy)
- Thomas-Fermi method: Andrei Postnikov (Lecture note)
- Inhomogeneous Electron Gas: P. Hohenberg and W. Kohn, Phys. Rev. 136, B864 (1964)
- Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects: W. Kohn and L. J. Sham, Phys. Rev. 140, A1133 (1965)
- Perspective: Fifty years of density-functional theory in chemical physics: Axel D. Becke, J. Chem. Phys. 140, 18A301 (2014)
- Thirty years of density functional theory in computational chemistry: an overview and extensive assessment of 200 density functionals: N. Mardirossian and M. Head-Gordon, Mol. Phys. 115(19), 2315-2372, (2017)
- A Bachelor thesis on Density Functional Theory by Niklas Zwettler at the University of Graz
- Theory of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Samir Lounis
- Atomic Force Microscopy: A Powerful Tool to Address Scaffold Design in Tissue Engineering: M. Marrese, V. Guarino, and L. Ambrosio, J. Funct. Biomater. 8, 1 (2017)
References
- Condensed Matter Physics – Michael P. Marder
- Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules – Robert G. Parr and Weitao Yang
- Introduction to Solid-State Theory – Otfried Madelung [Translated by B. C. Taylor]
- Introduction to Solid State Physics – Charles Kittel
- Modern Techniques of Surface Science – D.P. Woodruff and T.A. Dechar