Course Description

PH612: Advanced Solid State Physics II

This course follows PH611Advanced Solid State Physics I, and is intended to provide graduate students in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and materials science with a graduate-level understanding of advanced topics in solid state physics. Topics include: optical properties, elementary excitations, electron correlations, many-body effects, Green's functions, density functional theory, magnetism, superconductivity, and nonlinear phenomena.

Prerequisites: PH503 and PH504.