Special Topics In Condensed-Matter Physics
Physics 450
Room F328, Tuesday and Thursday at 12:00 PM
Winter 2001


1.  Ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism
         1. A survey of magnetic properties
                 1.1. Ferromagnetism
                 1.2. Antiferromagnetism
                 1.3. Ferrimagnetism
                 1.4. Complex structures
         2. The Ginzburg-Landau model
                 2.1. Thermodynamic behavior
                 2.2. Behavior near the critical temperature
                 2.3. Gradient energy
                 2.4. Anisotropy energy
                 2.5. Domain-wall energy
                 2.6. Dipolar effects
                 2.7. Micromagnetics
                 2.8. Spin waves
         3. Microscopic models of magnetism
2    Magnetic resonance, masers and lasers
         2.1 Magnetic resonance
                 2.1.1. Bloch equations
                 2.1.2. Electron spin resonance (esr)
                 2.1.3. Nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr):
                 2.1.4. Ferromagnetic resonance (fmr): Landau-Lifshitz equation
                 2.1.5. Antiferromagnetic resonance
         2.2. Magnetic relaxation
         2.3. Solid state masers and lasers
                 2.3.1. Population inversion and laser action
                 2.3.2. Laser materials
                 2.3.3. Single-mode and mode-locked operation
3.    Magnetic impurities
         3.1. Anderson-Hubbard model
         3.2. Kondo effect
         3.3. Kondo lattice; heavy fermion metals
4    Optical properties of insulators; excitons and polaritons
         4.1. Selection rules
         4.2. VanHove critical points
         4.3. Photoconductivity; photoluminesence
         4.4. Excitons
                 23.4.1. Electron-hole bound states
                 23.4.2. Interaction of excitons with light
         4.4. The surface plasmon-polariton resonance
5    Artificially structured materials
         5.1. Quantum wells and multilayers
                 5.1.1. Band structure and minibands
                 5.1.2. Interface boundary conditions
                 5.1.3. Interaction with light; the quantum cascade laser
         5.2. Quantum Hall effect
         5.3. Fractional quantum Hall effect
         5.4. Quantum wires; edge states
         5.5. Quantum dots
         5.6. Photonic crystals