SUBJECT
Title
Electrons in solids
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Models of interacting electron systems. Correlation and screening. Quasi particles and collective excitations. Density functional theory. Landau theory of Fermi liquid. Luttinger liquid, quantum Hall liquid. Broken-Symmetry states in interacting electron systems. Strongly correlated systems. Random systems. Mesoscopic systems.
Readings
required readings:
- Jenő Sólyom: Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids: Volume 3 - Normal, Broken-Symmetry, and Correlated Systems, Springer; 2011 edition
recommended readings:
- Jenő Sólyom: Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids: Volume 1: Structure and Dynamics, Springer; 2007 edition
- Jenő Sólyom: Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids: Volume II: Electronic Properties, Springer; 2009 edition, G. D. Mahan: Many-Particle Physics, Plenum Press, 1990