Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

4/26/11

Reading for next week

Beginning next tuesday I will lecture on "Beyond the independent electron approximation", closely following chapter 17 and pages 674-9 of Ashcroft and Mermin.
Key concepts include:
The many-body Schrodinger equation
Hartree approximation and the self-consistent field
Hartree-Fock approximation and the exchange interaction
Screening
Fermi liquid theory
Singlet-Triplet splitting

4/13/11

Reading for next week

Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 13
The semi-classical theory of conduction in metals

Important equations are
13.11, 13.19
13.22-25
13.44-46
13.58, 13.61

4/6/11

Reading and some notes for next week

Ashcroft and Mermin
Chapter 12
Take particular note of
Table 12.1
Equations 12.6
subsection: Filled bands are inert
subsection: Holes

Here are some preliminary notes.