Last updated: October 23, 2024
Course Code: PHY 5111
Course Title: Condensed Matter Physics
Master of Science in Physics
Academic Year: 2022-2023
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
- Quantum Materials Simulation Lab (QMSL)
- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Academic Building
- Email: rashid@just.edu.bd
- Phone: +880-421-62030 Ext: 444
Lecture Schedule
| Day | Time | Room Number |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday | 12:00 - 12:45 | 505 |
| Monday | 10:20 - 11:05 | |
| Tuesday | 11:10 - 11:55 |
Mandatory Reading
| Week | Chapter | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 02 | 6 | Condensed Matter Physics – Michael P. Marder |
| 03 | 7 | |
| 04 | 8 | |
| 05 | 9 | |
| 1 | Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules – Robert G. Parr and Weitao Yang | |
| 06 | 2 | |
| 07 | 3 | |
| 08 | 7 | |
| 09 | 8 | |
| 10 | 14 | Introduction to Solid State Physics – Charles Kittel (8th edition) |
| 11 | ||
| 12 |
Lecture Slides
- Review: Structure of Matter [Video 80.5 min] [Slides]
- Review: Quantum Mechanics [Slides]
- Free Fermi Gas, Single Electron Model [Slides]
- Non-Interacting Electron in a Periodic Potential [Slides]
- Nearly Free and Tightly Bound Electrons [Slides]
- Electron-Electron Interactions [Slides]
- Elementary Wave Mechanics [Slides]
- Density Matrices [Slides]
- Density Functional Theory [Slides]
- The Kohn-Sham Method: Basic Principles [Slides]
- The Kohn-Sham Method: Elaboration [Slides]
Related Resources
- Video lectures on Quantum Mechanics: Mohammad Abdur Rashid
- Video lectures on Solid State Physics: Sandro Scandolo (ICTP, Italy)
- An Introduction to Density Functional Theory: Mohammad Abdur Rashid
- 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
Quizes/Assignments
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