Course Information
Office hours are Thursday 10am-12noon in 417 Weniger Hall.
Course description pdf
Course calendar pdf
Problem Sets and solutions
PS1 pdf - Solutions for PS1 pdf
PS2 pdf - Solutions for PS2 pdf
Midterm exam pdf - Midterm solutions pdf
PS3 pdf - Solutions for PS3 pdf
PS4 pdf - Solutions for PS4 pdf
Practice final pdf
Class handouts
Phase transitions, experimental examples pdf
Quantized transmission of electrons and photons, experimental examples pdf
Coherent scattering vs. incoherent scattering, experimental example pdf
STM spectroscopy to image bound wavestates pdf
End of term review worksheet pdf
Reading Material
PR (1960) - Time of flight measurements pdf
PRL (1977) - Conducting polymer pdf
Nature (1997) - Which-path interferometer pdf
Nature (1998) - STM of carbon nanotubes pdf
Science (2000) - Schon retracted paper pdf
Nature (2001) - Nanotube resonant tunneling pdf
Nature (2001) - Coherent electron flow pdf
PNAS (2004) - MRI with a SQUID pdf
"Mesoscopic Physics" by Cees Harmans pdf (15 Mb)
Links to websites
Animation of a second order phase transition link
Renormalization Group applied to second order phase transitions link