Advanced Solid State Physics

Electron-electron interactions

Outline
• Screening
• Electronic phase transitions
• Single electron effects
• Coulomb blockade in single-electron transistors
• Mott Transition
• Peierls transition

Reading
Kittel Chapter 14
The material on semiconductor nanocrystals and the Coulomb blockade is in Chapter 18 of Kittel

References
• Coulomb blockade in single-electron transistors
• Electrostatics of a charging network
• Calculating the current through a single-electron transistor
• Electrons in Glass, Nobel Lecture 1977, Sir Nevill F. Mott
• Video: Iron age superconductors, Michael Norman
• The Hubbard model
• The Peierls transition
• Philip W. Anderson, Superconductivity in High Tc Cuprates: The Cause Is No Longer a Mystery