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Introduction to physical kinetics, transport theory, and disordered systems

Alex Tsyplyatyev, WS 2021/2022

Lectures: 2 hours per week on Tuesdays at 10:15-12:00
Room: Phys 1.114
First lecture: 19.10.2021
Last lecture: 15.02.2022 (15 weeks of lectures in total, 3 weeks of Christmas vacation 18.12.2021 - 07.01.2022)

Tutorials: 2 hours every second week on Tuesdays at 14:15-16:00
Room: Phys 1.114
Tutorial manager: Mr. Max Hansen/Mr. Dmytro Tarasevych
Tutor: Mr. Max Hansen/Mr. Dmytro Tarasevych
First tutorial: 9.11.2021 (6 weeks of tutorials in total, dates are 9.11, 23.11, 7.12, 11.01, 25.01, 8.02)

This course is an introduction to the kinetics of physical systems, with many applications to electrons in a disordered potential, and transport theory of metals/semiconductors, including scattering by phonons and magnetic impurities as well as thermoelectricity, spintronics, and classical Hall effect. This lecture extends the standard material of the undergraduate courses on the classical and a bit on quantum mechanics towards research in the theoretical solid-state physics.

Announcements

The lecture course and tutorials will be conducted in person, in accord with the current university policy. In case this policy changes during the semester, a change to organisation of this course will have to be made on a short notice - check the webpage regularly.

The tutorial classes start on Tuesday the 9th of November.

Lecture notes

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Complete lecture notes

Problem sheets

  1. Parameters of the free Fermi gas, Bloch's Theorem (Max)
  2. Derivation of the Navier-Stokes equation (Max)
  3. Fermi Liquid Theory (Max)
  4. Oscillations in collisionless plasma (Dmytro)
  5. Electrical conductivity in Green function formalism (Dmytro)
  6. Diffuson and disorder averaging of conductivity (Dmytro)
Literature
  • A. A. Abrikosov, Fundamentals of the Theory of Metals, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1988. (main book)
  • A. A. Abrikosov, L. P. Gorkov, I. E. Dzyaloshinski, Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1964.
  • L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 10: Physical Kinetics, Pergamon Press, Exeter, 1981.