Solid state physics III
PHYS-419
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Lectures: The lectures will be take place on Wednesdays from 13:15 to 16:00 in room GRA332.
Exercises: The exercises will take place on Thursdays from 08:15 to 10:00 in room GRA332.
Outside the exercises, the students can use the Ed forum or directly contact the teaching assistants:
Pratyay Ghosh: pratyay.ghosh@epfl.ch
Tianyue Huang: tianyue.huang@epfl.ch
Chapters treated week by week (will be updated periodically):
Wed 11.09.2024: Introductory Slides; Mila: Section 1.2Wed 18.09.2024: Sigrist: Section 1.5, 1.6, 1.7., 2.2 (without 2.2.3)
Wed 25.09.2024: Sigrist: Section 2.2 (without 2.2.3), 3.1
Wed 02.10.2024: Sigrist: Section 3.2.1., 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4
Wed 09.10.2024: Sigrist: Section 3.2.4, 4.1.
Wed 16.10.2024: Sigrist: Section 4.2 (overview level) ;Girvin FQH Lecture Notes, Section 1 and first part of Section 2
Wed 30.10.2024: Girvin FQH Lecture Notes Section 2.
Wed 6.11.2024: Mila: Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Wed 13.11.2024: Mila: Sections 4.4, 5.1, beginning of 5.2
Wed 20.11.2024: Mila: Sections 5.2, 5.3, (5.4)
Homework
- Homework 1 (File)
- Solution_homework1 (File)
- Solution HW2 (File)
- HW2_mathematic_notebook (File)
- Solution homework3 (File)
Lecture notes
- Lecture notes "Solid State Physics III" by Prof. Frédéric Mila (File)
- Lecture notes "Solid State Theory" by Prof. Manfred Sigrist (File)
- Lecture notes "Introduction to the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect" by Prof. Steve Girvin (File)
- Introductory slides of the first week (File)
- Slides of week 5: de Haas-van Alphen & Quantum Hall Effect (File)
- Slides of week 7: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Laughlin wave function (File)
- Quantum Magnetism: Mikeska and Kolezhuk (File)
Exam
The exam will take place on Thursday, January 26, 2023 from 9:15 to 12:15 in room CM1221.
No document will be allowed. We will provide paper and draft paper. Just bring pens or pencils and your student card.
Exercise series
Solid state physics III
The series will be posted on Wednesday before the exercise session, the correction will be posted the following Wednesday.
Your comments on the exercises and their corrections are most welcome, especially if you find some mistake/typo.
- Exercise session 1 (File)
- Solution 1 (File)
- Note for second quantization in the first exercise class (File)
- Exercise session 2 (File)
- Solution 2 (File)
- Exercise session 3 (File)
- Solution 3 (File)
- Exercise session 4 (File)
- Solution 4 (File)
- Exercise session 5 (File)
- Solution 5 (File)
- Exercise session 6 (File)
- Solution 6 (File)
- Exercise session 7 (File)
- Solution 7 (File)
- exercise session 8 (File)
- Solution 8 (File)
- Exercise session 9 (File)
- Solution 9 (File)
- Exercise session 10 (File)
- Solution 10 (File)
- Exercise session 11 (File)
Previous exams
Complements des notes de cours
Presentations
Groups, dates and subjects
1. Spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain via Bethe Ansatz - 01/11/2017
The spin-1/2 chain with ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic coupling, and the exact solution by Bethe ansatz.
2. J1-J2 model 2/11/16
2. Spin-1 chain and AKLT model (Nobel prize) - 8/11/17
Demonstrating the Haldane conjecture that the spin-1 chain (unlike the spin-1/2) has a valence bond solid ground state and gapped excitations. The AKLT Hamiltonian can be treated exactly using Schwinger bosons, and is adiabatically connected to the spin-1 Heisenberg model.
3. Spin Ice - 14/11/2017
This presentation will take place on Tuesday morning at the time of the lecture.
4. de Haas-van Alphen - 15/11/17
The de Haas-van Alphen and related effects, and how they can be used to measure the Fermi surface of metals.
5. Hofstadter butterfly - 29/11/2017
6. Integer QHE in graphene - 6/12/2017
7. Unconventional superconductivity - 20/12/2017
Présentation II (2009) : papillon de Hofstadter