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(texts in PDF) of the above identified graduate course.
UNIT 1 – Independent electrons
- Text 1 Introduction
- Text 2 Symmetries
- Text 3 Independent-electron
approximation – Energy eigenstates
- Text 4 Energy bands in two limits
- Text 5 Thermodynamics of Bloch electrons
- Text 6 Bloch electrons in the
presence of external fields
- Text 7 Transport properties —
Boltzmann Equation
- Text 8 Applications of Boltzmann
equation
UNIT 2 – Electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions
- Text 9 Ground state of interacting electrons
- Text 10 Electronic Hamiltonian in
second quantization
- Text 11 Interacting electrons in the homogeneous limit
- Text 12 Green's-function approach to
interacting electrons
- Text 13 Green's functions: calculation methods
- Text 14 Simple approximations from the single-particle Green's functions
- Text 15 Elementary excitations in the interacting electron system
- Text 16 Green's functions and response to external fields
- Text 17 Electron-phonon interaction
- Text 18 Phonon effects on electronic properties