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Terminated in academic year 2017/2018

Theory of Solids

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 717-3712/01
Abbreviation TPL
Course title Theory of Solids
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator prof. Dr. RNDr. Jiří Luňáček

Subject syllabus

1. Free electrons in metals
1.1. Energy levels, electron gas and specific heat
1.2. Ohm law and heat conduction in metals

2. Energy bands
2.1. Nearly-free electrons
2.2. Bloch theorem and Kronig-Penny model
2.3. Metals and isolators
2.4. Description methods

3. Semiconductor crystals
3.1. Frbidden band
3.2. Equations of electron motion
3.3. holes and effective mass
3.4. Basic parameters of band structures

4. Fermi surfaces and metals
4.1. Construction of Fermi surfaces
4.2. Experimental methods

5. Diamagnetism a paramagnetism
5.1. Langevin theory
5.2. Outline of the semi-quantum and quantum theory of paramagnetism

6. Ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism
6.1. Arrangement
6.2. Ferromagnetism domains

Literature

Wert, Ch.A., Thomson, R.M.: Physics of Solids. McGraw-Hill., N.Y., 1964.
Kittel, Ch.: Introductions to Solid State Physics, John Wiley and Sons, first
edition, Cambridge 1953, (and next).

Advised literature

1) Borg, R.J. – Dienes, G.J.: The Physical Chemistry of Solids, Academic
Press, Inc., London 1992 - ISBN 0 12 118420 X
2) Cohen, M.L. and Louie, S.G.: Fundamentals of Condensed Matter Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2017.