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