W F 2:30-4:00, Baker 119
Christopher L. Henley, 531 Clark, clh@ccmr.cornell.edu
Office hours: tentatively, Tues 3:30-4:30.
In the past, I sometimes did quantized Hall effect as one of the units in P636; here I'll cover the same material less rapidly. I am preparing lecture notes as the manuscript of book chapters, but these won't necessarily be available before the lectures.
In my module, it's likely I'll hand out "teaser questions" on Weds. and due Friday. These are supposed to take only 10 minutes or so. The question is sometimes just finding a fact in the lecture notes or reading, other times a back-of-envelope calculation or a piece of qualitative reasoning. The purpose is (i) to nudge you all to keep up with the course (ii) give me feedback on your understanding. They are required to the same extent as the regular homework, but will be recorded purely as participation.
There will be about one problem per week of regular homework.
The other half of the homework load is a mini-term-paper. You'll read a published paper on some aspect of quantized Hall effect, look up publications related to it, then explain it (on the level of this course) in a writeup of say 1500-2500 words (equivalent of 1.5 to 2.5 pages in Phys Rev Letters.) A draft version, due after 3 weeks, will be handed to other students for "peer review". You'll make revisions and hand in the final version a week later.