Lecture notes for an informal seminar series on metals and superconductors.<\/p>\n
After a brief hiatus, we’re now taking a significant detour, through the quantum mechanics of identical particles. We’ll return to look at superconductivity in much more detail once we’re done with identical particles. This week’s notes are very much in draft form, and cover the content of several lectures: this week’s notes<\/a>. They’re also in LaTeX, not handwritten!<\/p>\n Old notes<\/b><\/p>\n Handwritten scanned PDF lecture notes, each lecture is 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":" Lecture notes for an informal seminar series on metals and superconductors. After a brief hiatus, we’re now taking a significant detour, through the quantum mechanics of identical particles. We’ll return to look at superconductivity in much more detail once we’re done with identical particles. This week’s notes are very much in draft form, and cover… 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-37","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\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"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