Lecture Notes on Solid State Physics - Kevin Zhou

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Lecture Notes onSolid State PhysicsKevin Notes comprise an undergraduate-level introduction to Solid State Physics . Results fromundergraduate quantum mechanics are used freely, but the language of second quantization is primary sources were: Kittel,Introduction to Solid State Physics . The standard undergraduate-level introduction tosolid State Physics , with consistently good quality. Ashcroft and Mermin, Solid State Physics . The standard graduate-level introduction to solidstate Physics . Relatively dry and difficult to read. Covers essentially the same conceptualmaterial as Kittel, with more detail on specific properties of solids and experimental techniques.

The Drude theory of metals, introduced in 1900, models a metal as a classical gas of electrons, assumed to be the valence electrons of the atoms used to form the metal. • We assume the electrons don’t interact with each other at all, the ‘independent electron ap-proximation’. However, we will allow collisions with the lattice ions.

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