Statistical and Solid State Physics - PHYS3021
Faculty: Faculty of Science
School: School of Physics
Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYS2040 and PHYS2060, or, PHYS2110 and PHYS2210; Exclusion: PHYS3080, PHYS3020
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Description
Thermodynamic probability, Boltzmann entropy, Boltzman distribution, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions, thermodynamics from the partition function. Micro-canonical, canonical and grand canonical ensembles, fluctuations. heat capacity of diatomics, Einstein and Debye models, paramagnetism. Blackbody radiation, Bose-Einstein condensation, liquid helium. Fermi energy, free elctrons and the Fermi gas, applications.
Free electron model of metals, Bloch states and energy bands, reciprocal space and the Fermi surface, electron dynamics, Landau levels. Crystal structure, Brillouin zones, elementary diffraction theory, bonding, cohesive processes, impurity states, impurity conductivity. Lattice vibration, monatomic and diatomic chain, acoustic and optic phonons, Einstein and Debye models, dielectric effects.
Assumed Knowledge: A first course in macroscopic thermodynamics and basic quantum theory plus a familiarity with differential equations.
Free electron model of metals, Bloch states and energy bands, reciprocal space and the Fermi surface, electron dynamics, Landau levels. Crystal structure, Brillouin zones, elementary diffraction theory, bonding, cohesive processes, impurity states, impurity conductivity. Lattice vibration, monatomic and diatomic chain, acoustic and optic phonons, Einstein and Debye models, dielectric effects.
Assumed Knowledge: A first course in macroscopic thermodynamics and basic quantum theory plus a familiarity with differential equations.