PSI 2018/2019 - Condensed Matter (Tiwari)

Electrons in a periodic potential; Bravais lattice; Bloch's theorem; FIrst Brillouin Zone; Intro to nearly free electrons and tight binding model.

Hamiltonian in second quantization.

Motivation; single-particle Schroedinger Eqn; N particles; symmetrizaion/anti-symmetrization; second quantization; Fock space.