Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Yoğun Madde Fiziği I
	English	Condensed Matter Physics I
Course Code	FIZ 509E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	1	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Tahsin Tuğrul Hakioğlu Tahsin Tuğrul Hakioğlu
Course Objectives		Introduction to Solid State and Condensed Matter Physics
Course Description		Crystal Structures, The Reciprocal Lattice, Determination of Crystal Structures, The Free Electron Model: Drude and Sommerfeld, The Classical and Quantum Theory of the Harmonic Crystal: Phonons, Debye and Einstein Models, Electron in a Periodic Potential: Bloch theorem, Nearly free electron model, Fermi surface and the density of states, The Tight-Binding Model
Course Outcomes		-Concepts of Crystal Lattices, Structures analysıs technics, -Condensed Matter structure and behavior -Using Quantum Theory and introducing the Bloch theorem, Fermi surface and the density of states where classic theory is not sufficient to explain the physics. -Calculating the Energy Bands, Geometrical, Optical properties of metals: Free electron transitions (intraband and interband). Plasmons; -Learning the Tight-Binding Model and use it in the analysis of electron band structure.
Pre-requisite(s)		Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Statistical Mechanics, Classical Mchanics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, numerical methods
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook
Other References		web page of the course: quantech.itu.edu.tr/res_train/FIZ509E

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