# PHY1487H F INTRODUCTORY Quantum Theory of Solids I

## Official description

1. Introduction to Crystalline Solids:
- Broken symmetry and elementary excitations
- Bonding
- Periodic lattices and reciprocal lattices
- Diffraction
2. Electrons in Crystals
3. Electron band theory
- Free electron model
- Nearly free electron model
- Tight binding
- Properties of materials based on energy bands
4. Lattice vibrations:
- classical normal modes of vibration: phonons
- Properties based on phonon dispersion relations
5. Electron dynamics in Crystals:
- Wannier functions
- Semiclassical electron dynamics
- Motion in electric and magnetic fields
- Effective mass tensor
- Berry phase and Berry curvature
6. Electron-electron interactions:
- Hartree-Fock theory
- Exchange and correlation
- Density functional theory and applications
Textbook
                            Fundamentals of Condensed Matter Physics, by Marvin L Cohen and Steven G. Louie;  an elementary textbook such as Ashcroft and Mermin, or Kittel, will also be helpful.

course title
PHY1487H F INTRODUCTORY
session
fall
group
cross listed course
time and location
T, R 1
Course URL
https://sites.physics.ut…
coordinator
Stephen R. Julian
416-978-8188
MP086

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