Kinetic theory and its applications to electron transport in metals
When : March 2011, March 2013, March 2015
Where : École Doctorale de Physique de Grenoble
Level : graduate
Program of the course
- Phase space, distribution function, Liouville equation, collision integral.
- Kinetic equation for electrons in static disorder, electrical conductivity at very low temperatures, diffusion equation.
- Collisions in a classical atomic gas, H theorem, thermal equilibrium, hydrodynamic equations.
- Coulomb collisions, Debye screening, Landau collision integral.
- Collisionless plasma : Vlasov equation, plasma waves, Landau damping.
- Collisions of degenerate electrons, Fermi liquid, scattering on impurities, Umklapp processes, electrical and thermal conductivity, thermoelectric effects.
- Electron-phonon collisions.
Notes are available upon request.