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Physics 545 Solid State Physics at Purdue University. Textbook: Introduction to Solid State Physics by C. Kittel. Course webpage

Lecture 23: Superconductivity

The quantum stability of a superconductor ensures that electrons can carry current perfectly, without losing energy. There are 2 ingredients to this p...
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Lecture 23: Superconductivity

The quantum stability of a superconductor ensures that electrons can carry current perfectly, without losing energy. There are 2 ingredients to this p...
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Lecture 22: Antiferromagnets

We finish off the low temperature corrections to the magnetization in a ferromagnet due to spin wave excitations, and also calculate the energy and he...
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Lecture 22: Antiferromagnets

We finish off the low temperature corrections to the magnetization in a ferromagnet due to spin wave excitations, and also calculate the energy and he...
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Lecture 13: p-n Junctions

We talk more about holes today. They don't really exist, you know! But when only a few electrons are missing from the valence band, it's so much more ...
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Lecture 13: p-n Junctions

We talk more about holes today. They don't really exist, you know! But when only a few electrons are missing from the valence band, it's so much more ...
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Lecture 5: Heat Capacity

We define the heat capacity, and calculate the phonon heat capacity in the high and low temperature limits. We also introduce the density of states. T...
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Lecture 5: Heat Capacity

We define the heat capacity, and calculate the phonon heat capacity in the high and low temperature limits. We also introduce the density of states. T...
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