Kirjahaku

In these handwritten lecture notes, a variety of topics such as crystal structure, mechanical, thermal, electrical, and magnetic properties of solids, band structure and group theory, the Fermi surface, and spin-orbit interaction will be treated with examples such as the electronic states in two-dimensional graphene. Although the emphasis will be on the phenomena, the methods of quantum mechanics are freely employed in this description.

These handwritten notes are based on lectures delivered during the Spring semesters of 2012 and 2016 in the advanced undergraduate courses PHYS401 and PHYS402 (Quantum Physics I & II) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The primary objective of these courses is to introduce students to the canonical elements of quantum mechanics: wave-particle duality, the Schrodinger equation, bound states and scattering in one dimension, central potentials and the hydrogen atom, Dirac formalism including quantum states as vectors in Hilbert space, spin and spectroscopy, multi-particle systems, the periodic table, and several approximation methods such as perturbation theory, variational principle, etc.