Week 2

Lecture 3, 29 January, 13.15-15.00, FL51

Paramagnetism of free electrons
Curie paramagnetism. Adiabatic demagnetization.

Reading

A&M: Chapter 2, 31 (p. 644-645, 661-663, 655-660).
Kittel: Chapter 14.

Review questions

1. Calculate paramagnetic susceptibility of the Fermi gas.
2. Calculate Curie paramagnetic susceptibility. What is the difference between Curie paramagnetism and Pauli paramagnetism? Why are they different?
3. How to cool spins?

Home task

A&M, problems 2.1; 2.2a,f; 2.3d; 2.4.


Lecture 4, 31 January, 10.00-12.00, FL51

Crystal structure. Bravais lattice, reciprocal lattice.
X-ray difraction.

Reading

A&M: Chapter 4 - 6

Review questions

1. What is primitive cell, primitive vectors of crystal lattice?
2. Give primitive vectors of the SC-, BCC- and FCC-lattices and describe those lattice structures.
3. What is the Wigner-Seitz cell?
4. What is reciprocal lattice? Crystalline planes?
5. How to extract information about crystal structure from diffraction data?