^ Week 1^^Topic^Reading^Assignments| |1|M 3/28|Physics Comp Exam - No class| |[[hw1|HW #1]]| |[[2]]|W 3/30|Free electron gas, electrical conductivity|A&M Ch 2,3, Kittel Ch 6| | |[[3]]|F 4/1|FEG, thermal transport, occupation function|A&M Ch 2,3,8; K Ch 6| | ^Week 2^^Topic^Reading^Assignments| |[[4]]|M 4/4|Boltzmann transport eq., Phonon scattering |A&M Ch 13,16; K App F|[[hw2|HW #2]]| |[[5]]|W 4/6|Phonon scattering|K App. J, Ch 18, A&M Ch 16 esp p. 321 ff| | |[[6]]|F 4/8|Ballistic Transport in 1-D; adding inelastic & elastic scattering|K Ch 18 (Nanostructures)| Project proposal | ^Week 3^^Topic^Reading^Assignments| |[[7]]|M 4/11|Ballistic Transport in 1-D; Anderson localization; Semiconductor transport - band and hopping|K Ch 18 (Nanostructures);{{::mott_-_variable_range_hopping.pdf|Mott VRH}}, A&M p340 & 542|[[hw3|HW #3]]| |[[8]]|W 4/13|Mott Insulators? Electrons in B-field; Aharanov Bohm effect|{{::feynman_abeffect.pdf|Feynman Lecture on AB effect}}| | |[[9]]|F 4/15|Quantum Hall Effect|{{::vonklitzing_qhe_pt_38_1985_17.pdf|PT-QHE}}, [[http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/56/8/10.1063/1.1611351|Avron QHE]] | | ^Week 4^^Topic^Reading^Assignments| |[[10]]|M 4/18|Tunneling devices|[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling#cite_note-21, AM p.735,K p.287|Tunneling (wikipedia)]] |[[hw4|HW #4]]| |[[11]]|W 4/20|Superconductivity|I&L ch. 10, K Ch. 10, A&M Ch34 | | |12|F 4/22|No class| | | ^Week 5^^Topic^Reading^Assignments| |[[13]]|M 4/25|Talks (NQ,JP,DM)|student-assigned|[[hw5|HW #5]]| |[[14]]|W 4/27|Superconductivity|I&L ch. 10, K Ch. 10, A&M Ch34| | |[[15]]|F 4/29 |Talks (KV, RH) |student-assigned | | ^Week 6^^Topic^Time^Location| | |R 5/5|Final Exam|0930-1120 | TBA|