PDF lecture notes for an informal seminar series on metals and superconductors. Files are typically 10-20 pages long, and between 1 and 2 megabytes, with a few somewhat larger files.<\/p>\n
Part I: The Drude Theory of metals<\/b><\/p>\n
Lecture 1<\/a>: Introduction to the Drude theory of metals Part II: The Sommerfeld theory of metals<\/b><\/p>\n Lecture 5<\/a>: Ground state properties of a free electron gas Part III: Superconductivity<\/b><\/p>\n Lecture 9<\/a>: Superconductivity: basic facts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PDF lecture notes for an informal seminar series on metals and superconductors. Files are typically 10-20 pages long, and between 1 and 2 megabytes, with a few somewhat larger files. Part I: The Drude Theory of metals Lecture 1: Introduction to the Drude theory of metals Lecture 2: Applications of the Drude theory Lecture 3:… Continue reading Lectures on Metals and Superconductors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lectures-on-metals-and-superconductors","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLecture 2<\/a>: Applications of the Drude theory
\nLecture 3<\/a>: AC electrical conductivity of a metal
\nLecture 4<\/a>: Thermal conductivity of a metal<\/p>\n
\nLecture 6<\/a>: The Fermi-Dirac distribution
\nLecture 7<\/a>: Energy density and specific heat in a free electron gas
\nLecture 8<\/a>: The Sommerfeld model of metals<\/p>\n