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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Physics
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Zohar Ringel
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Zohar Ringel
Mr. Hen Alpern
Course/Module description:
The course will cover basic and advanced topics in Solid State Physics
Course/Module aims:
The students will be familiar with basic concepts in solid state physics: Crystal structure, Quasi-crystals, Electronic band structures, Metals, Insulators, the Quantum Hall Effect, Anderson Localization in low dimensions, and Magnetic phenomena.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
The students will be familiar with basic concepts in solid state physics: Crystal structure, Quasi-crystals, Electronic band structures, Metals, Insulators, the Quantum Hall Effect, Anderson Localization, and Magnetic phenomena such as paramagnets, ferromagnets, and spin-liquids
Attendance requirements(%):
-
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal lectures, TA hour, weekly exercise.
Course/Module Content:
1. Background
2. Crystal structure: Periodic structure, Bravais Lattice, reciprocal lattice.
3. X ray diffraction.
4. Quasicrystals.
5. Electronic band structure: Bloch theorem; The nearly free electron approximation, energy bands.
6. Electronic band structure: Tight binding approximation.
7. Conductance.
8. Graphene.
9. The Quantum Hall Effect
10. Transport in disorder quantum wires.
11. Super-exchange interactions
12. Magnetic phenomena.
Required Reading:
The course will be based on the following text books:
1. Kittel
2. Ashcroft & Mermin
3. Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors
B. Andrei Bernevig with Taylor L. Hughes
Additional Reading Material:
Will be given during the course
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 80 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 10 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
None
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