CMP1 opening thoughts
CMP1 is a 10 week module, spanning from halfway through Term 1 to halfway through term 2 in yr 3, and is focused on using quantum mechancis to discuss solid matter, with a focus on crystals.
We will apparently be discussing free electron models, band theories, semiconductors, magnetism, and superconductors with a neat aside on why frogs levitate in strong magnetic fields (very excited to learn this)
So far the actual Quantum Nature of the course hasn’t been very forthright, but I’m assured that it will make an appearance, we have just discussed Brillouin Zones and the reciprocal Lattice vector, after some 1d diatomic chains and their dispersion relations.
CMP doesn’t seem like it would be the field I want to go into but it definitely doesn’t seem to be a dud that will make me regret taking the course (hopefully!)










