Advanced Solid State Physics

Outline

Electrons

Magnetic effects and
Fermi surfaces

Magnetism

Linear response

Transport

Crystal Physics

Electron-electron
interactions

Quasiparticles

Structural phase
transitions

Landau theory
of second order
phase transitions

Superconductivity

Quantization

Photons

Exam questions

Appendices

Lectures

Books

Course notes

TUG students

      

Physical Constants

Quantity

Symbol

Value

Units

electron charge

e

1.60217733 × 10-19

C

speed of light 

c

2.99792458 × 108

 m/s

Planck's constant

h

6.6260755 × 10-34

J s 

reduced Planck's constant

1.05457266 × 10-34

J s

Boltzmann's constant

 kB

1.380658 × 10-23

J/K

Gravitational constant

G

6.6726 × 10-11

N m2/kg2

Acceleration of gravity
at earth's surface

g

9.807

m/s2

electron mass

me

9.1093897 × 10-31

kg 

Stefan-Boltzmann constant

σ

5.67051 × 10-8

W m-2 K-4

Bohr radius

a0

0.529177249 × 10-10

m

proton mass

mp

1.6726231 × 10-27

kg

neutron mass

mn

1.6749286 × 10-27

kg

atomic mass constant

mu

1.6605402 × 10-27

kg

permeability of vacuum

μ0

4π × 10-7

N A-2

permittivity of vacuum

ε0

8.854187817 × 10-12

F m-1

Coulomb constant

k

8.98755 × 109

m F-1

Avogado's constant

NA

6.0221367 × 1023

mol-1

π = 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197

Fundamental Physical Constants (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
SI units
Measurement uncertainty