PHY636:CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS-II

L:4 T:0 P:0 Credits:4

Course Outcomes: Through this course students should be able to

• Understand the exotic properties of many particle systems.

• Explain quantum size effect on the properties of different size materials.

• Synthesis and characterize nanomaterials.

Unit I
Formation of second quantization : wavefunctions for identical particles,
symmetrized basis for fermions, symmetrized basis for bosons, particle operators and
their matrix elements in symmetrized basis, number space representations of the
basis, creation and annihilation operators, commutation relations, representation of
operators in terms of creation and annihilation operators, equation of motion for
operators in number space
Unit II
Applications of second quantization : Hartree-Fock approximation, ground state
energy and single particle energy in paramagnetic and ferromagnetic states, role of
exchange term, ground state of interacting bosons, Bose-Einstein condensate,
spectrum of elementary excitations, superfludity
Unit III
Green’s function technique : one particle and two particle Green’s functions,
analytic properties of Green’s function, equations of motion for Green’s function,
dilute Fermi gas, Landau theory, screening of Coulomb interaction, random phase
approximation for electron gas
Unit IV
Quantum Size Effect : different quantum structures, energy, density of states and
wave function of quantum dots, energy, density of states and wave function of
quantum well, energy, density of states and wave function of quantum wire, artificial
atoms, applications of quantum structures, definition and physical properties of
nanostructured materials
Unit V
Synthesis and Characterization of Nanomaterials : methods of synthesis of
nanostructured materials, sol gel method, solid state reaction method, Special
experimental techniques for characterization of nanostructured materials., scanning
electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, atomic force microscope,
vibrating sample magnetometer, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Mossbauer
spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction method
Unit VI
Quasicrystals : structure and symmetries of liquids, liquid crystals and amorphous
solids, a periodic solids and quasicrystals, Fibonaccy sequence, Penrose lattices and
their extension to 3-dimensions

References:

1. THIN FILM FUNDAMENTALS by A. GOSWAMI, NEW AGE INTERNATIONAL

2. NANOSTRUCTURES & NANOMATERIALS SYNTHESIS, PROPERTIES G;Z:

APPLICATIONS by GUOZHONG CAO , YING WANG, IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS

3. MANY-ELECTRON THEORY by STANLEY RAIMES, NORTH HOLLAND

4. BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATION IN DILUTE GASES by C. J. PETHICK AND H.

SMITH, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

5. ADVANCED SOLID STATE PHYSICS by PHILIP PHILLIPS, WESTVIEW PRESS

6. GREEN'S FUNCTION IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS by WANG HUAIYU, ALPHA

SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

7. THE PHYSICS OF LIQUID CRYSTALS by P. G. DE GENNES AND J. PROST,

CLARENDON

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