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MIT OpenCourseWare
Theory of Solids I
- Instructor
- Prof. Patrick Lee
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 35 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.511 Theory of Solids I, Fall 2004, Prof. Patrick Lee — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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How this course was organized
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- A lecture sequence of 24 items is confirmed. Assignment and exam materials exist too, but MIT's own order for them could not be verified, so they're shown as materials below rather than a sequence.
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Lecture Notes
24 files
- Free Electron Model Download
- Crystalline Lattice Download
- Debye Waller Factor and Incommensurate Structures Download
- Point Group for Bravais Lattice Download
- Bloch Theorem Download
- Band Structure Download
- Orthogonalized Plane Wave (OPW) Download
- Pseudopotential and Augmented-Plane-Wave (APW) Download
- Tight Binding, van Hove Singularity Download
- Experimental Tests of Band Structure and A Survey of the Periodic Table Download
- Semiconductors: Donors, Acceptors and Excitons Download
- Semiclassical Dynamics of Electrons, Bloch Oscillation and Quantization of Orbits in a Uniform Magnetic Field Download
- de Haas-van Alphen Effect and Quantum Hall Effect Download
- Quantum Hall Effect and Edge States Download
- Electron-electron Interaction: Hartree-Fock Approximation Download
- Exchange Energy for Jellium Download
- Density Functional Theory Download
- Hubbard Model, Screening and Plasmons Download
- Phonons Download
- Electron-phonon Coupling and Electron Lifetime Download
- Attraction by Exchanging Phonons Download
- The Cooper Instability and the BCS Wavefunction Download
- The Bogoliubov Quasiparticles Download
- Ginzburg Landau Free Energy, Meissner Effect and Flux Quantization Download
Assignments
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Crystalline Lattice
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Lecture 3: Debye Waller Factor and Incommensurate Structures
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Lecture 4: Point Group for Bravais Lattice
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Lecture 5: Bloch Theorem
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Lecture 6: Band Structure
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Lecture 7: Orthogonalized Plane Wave (OPW)
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Lecture 8: Pseudopotential and Augmented-Plane-Wave (APW)
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Lecture 9: Tight Binding, van Hove Singularity
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Lecture 10: Experimental Tests of Band Structure and A Survey of the Periodic Table
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Lecture 11: Semiconductors: Donors, Acceptors and Excitons
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Lecture 12: Semiclassical Dynamics of Electrons, Bloch Oscillation and Quantization of Orbits in a Uniform Magnetic Field
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Lecture 13: de Haas-van Alphen Effect and Quantum Hall Effect
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Lecture 14: Quantum Hall Effect and Edge States
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Lecture 15: Electron-electron Interaction: Hartree-Fock Approximation
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Lecture 16: Exchange Energy for Jellium
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Lecture 17: Density Functional Theory
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Lecture 18: Hubbard Model, Screening and Plasmons
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Lecture 19: Phonons
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Lecture 20: Electron-phonon Coupling and Electron Lifetime
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Lecture 21: Attraction by Exchanging Phonons
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Lecture 22: The Cooper Instability and the BCS Wavefunction
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Lecture 23: The Bogoliubov Quasiparticles
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Lecture 24: Ginzburg Landau Free Energy, Meissner Effect and Flux Quantization
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