Advanced Solid State Physics

Outline

Electrons

Magnetic effects and
Fermi surfaces

Magnetism

Linear response

Transport

Crystal Physics

Electron-electron
interactions

Quasiparticles

Structural phase
transitions

Landau theory
of second order
phase transitions

Superconductivity

Quantization

Photons

Exam questions

Appendices

Lectures

Books

Course notes

TUG students

      

Lectures Summer Semester 2016

  • Introduction - February 29, 2016: Slides
  • Quantization- March 2, 2016: Slides
  • Photons - March 4, 2016: Slides
  • Photons - March 7, 2016: Slides
  • Free electrons, empty lattice approximation - March 11, 2016: Slides
  • Metals, Fermi surfaces - March 14, 2016: Slides
  • Metals, Fermi surfaces, plane wave method, tight binding - March 16, 2016: Slides
  • Graphene, carbon nanotubes - March 18, 2016: Slides
  • Metals, photoemission - April 13, 2016: Slides
  • Semiconductors - April 15, 2016: Slides
  • Free electrons in a magnetic field - April 18, 2016: Slides
  • Landau levels - April 20, 2016: Slides
  • Quantum Hall Effect - April 22, 2016: Slides
  • Landau levels - April 25, 2016: Slides
  • Linear response theory - April 27, 2016: Slides
  • Optical properties of insulators - April 29, 2016: Slides
  • Optical properties - May 2, 2016: Slides
  • Optical properties of metals - May 4, 2016: Slides
  • Ellipsometry / microwave engineering - May 6, 2016: Slides
  • Transport - May 9, 2016: Slides
  • Boltzmann equation - May 11, 2016: Slides
  • Thermoelectric effects - May 13, 2016: Slides
  • Thermoelectric effects / crystal physics - May 18, 2016: Slides
  • Crystal physics / structural phase transitions - May 20, 2016: Slides
  • Structural phase transitions / electron screening - May 23, 2016: Slides
  • Electron screening / Mott transition - May 25, 2016: Slides
  • Single-electron effects - May 30, 2016: Slides
  • Hubbard model, Peierls transition - June 1, 2016: Slides
  • Landau's theory of a Fermi liquid, phonons - June 3, 2016: Slides
  • Phonons, magnetism - June 6, 2016: Slides
  • Ferromagnetism - June 8, 2016: Slides
  • Magnons - June 10, 2016: Slides
  • Plasmons, polarons, polaritons - June 13, 2016: Slides
  • Excitons, Raman spectroscopy, ferroelectrics - June 15, 2016: Slides
  • Ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics - June 17, 2016: Slides
  • Landau theory of phase transitions - June 20, 2016: Slides
  • Landau theory of phase transition, Superconductivitys - June 22, 2016: Slides
  • Superconductivity - June 24, 2016: Slides
  • Superconductivity - June 27, 2016: Slides

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