Lectures

Ex Cathedra Lectures:

• What is Solid State Physics?
• Crystalline Solids: Symmetry and Bonding
• Experimental Determination of Crystal Structures
• Electronic Band Structure of Solids
• Quick and Dirty Introduction to Mott Insulators
• Crystal Lattice Vibrations: Phonons
• Thermal Properties of Crystal Lattices
• Semiclassical Electron Transport
• Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Nanostructures
• Review of Quantum Mechanics
• Review of Statistical Mechanics

Notes:

• Many-Body Physics: Unfinished Revolution (popular article)
• Notes on Density Functional Theory
• Pedagogical Examles of Using Character Tables of Point Groups
• Quantum Phase Transitions (popular article)
• Understanding the Chemical Potential
• Visualizing the Phonon Wave Function
• Quantum statistics: Is there an effective fermion repulsion or boson attraction?

HTML:

• Order Parameters, Broken Symmetry, and Topology
• WebElements
• Character Tables
• Crystal Lattice Structures
• Periodic Table of Fermi Surfaces
• Nucleic Acid Database
• Protein Data Bank
• DFT and Local Density Approximation
• Fat Schrödinger's cat (2-level MQC system)
• Introduction to Modern Solid State Physics

JAVA Applets:

• Simulations in Solid State Physics

Electrons:

• Fermi Surfaces
• Fermi Function
• Density of States
• Density of States: Free electrons vs. Tight-binding
• Structure Factor
• Two-dimensional lattice: Real and reciprocal space
• Electrons in a 2D lattice: Energy contours and density of states
• Quasicrystals
• Carbon Nanotubes

Phonons:

• Normal modes of coupled oscillators
• Phonon dispersion: Diatomic Lattice
• Fourier Series Java Applet
• Fourier Transform Java Applet

Experimental Techniques

• X-ray diffraction
• Interactive Diffraction Tutorial
• Scanning Tuneling Microscopy

Complex Systems:

• Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA - a fractal growth model)

Animation:

• Superconducting Levitation

Computer Algebra Lectures:

• Maple 8: Introduction
• Maple 8: Differential Equations
• Maple 8: Linear Algebra