SUBJECT

Title

Electrons in solids

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

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