PHY401 Condensed Matter Physics
General Information
| Lecturer: | Prof. Jürg Osterwalder |
| Teaching Assistant: | Pavlo Kliuiev |
| Lecture: | Mondays 9:00-11:00 and Tuesdays 9:00-11:00, starting on 19th September 2016 |
| Problem Sets and Short Talks: | Tuesdays 11:15-13:00, starting on 27th September 2016 |
| Room: | Y36 K08 |
| Exam: |
Tuesday, 31st January 2017, in office Y36 K92 (oral exam, individual invitations will be mailed) |
Lecture topics, schedule and material
| Lecture Material | Date | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture 1 (PDF, 339 KB) | 19. Sept. | How to get a Master in condensed matter physics, topics covered in this course, and requirements for passing this module. |
| Lecture 2 (PDF, 3 MB) | 20. Sept. | Electronic band structure and Fermi surfaces, tigh binding model, experimental methods: angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). |
| Lecture 3 (PDF, 6 MB) | 26. Sept. | Quantum oscillations in a magnetic field, Landau levels, de Haas van Alphén effect for measuring Fermi surface dimensions. |
| Lecture 4 (PDF, 1 MB) | 27. Sept. | Optical properties of solids: brush-up on electrodynamics, dielectric and optical constants. |
| Lecture 5 (PDF, 139 KB) | 3. Oct. | Oscillator models for dielectric constant: Lorentz model and free-electron model. |
| no new notes | 4. Oct. | Kramers-Kronig relation, intra- and interband transitions. |
| Lecture 7 (PDF, 2 MB) | 10. Oct. | Dispersion relation of light in matter, plasmons, polaritons |
| Lecture 8 (PDF, 1 MB) | 11. Oct. | Polaritons, ferroelectricity, polarons. |
| Lecture 9 (PDF, 2 MB) | 17. Oct. | Excitons, screening, Mott transition, introduction to superconductivity. |
| no new notes | 18. Oct | The ideal conductor versus the superconductor, the London equation, thermodynamical stability, Cooper pairs and energy gap. |
| no new notes | 24. Oct. | The superconducting state, condensate, coherence length, type I and II superconductors. |
| no new notes | 25. Oct. | Vortices in type II superconductors, critical fields Hc1 and Hc2, flux quantisation in a superconductor, flux pinning. |
| no new notes | 31. Oct. | Critical currents and critical current density, single electron tunneling, Josephson tunneling. |
| Lecture 14 (PDF, 1 MB) | 1. Nov. | DC Josephson effect, AC Josephson effect. |
| no new notes | 7. Nov. | Lecture cancelled |
| Lecture 16 (PDF, 5 MB) | 8. Nov. | High temperature superconductivity (Guest Lecture by Johan Chang) |
| no new notes | 14. Nov. | Overview Josephson effects, BCS theory of superconductivity |
| no new notes | 15. Nov. | BCS theory and superconducting current, Magnetism introduction, measuring magnetic susceptibilities |
| Lecture 19 (PDF, 4 MB) | 21. Nov. | Diamagnetism of closed electronic shells, paramagnetism of free atoms and ions |
| no new notes | 22. Nov. | Hund's rules, multiplicities, effective magneton number, paramagnetism of 4f and 3d ions, quenching of orbital angular momentum, Jahn-Teller effect |
| no new notes | 28. Nov. | Pauli paramagnetism, magnetic order, Curie-Weiss law, Heisenberg exchange, magnetisation above and below Curie temperature |
| Lecture 22 (PDF, 3 MB) | 29. Nov. | Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of gases and in solids (Guest Lecture by Andreas Schilling) |
| Lecture 23 (PDF, 2 MB) | 6. Dec. | Magnetisation of a ferromagnet, itinerant ferromagnetism, ferri- and antiferromagnetism |
| no new notes | 6. Dec. | Antiferromagnetism, ferromagnetic domains and magnetic hysteresis, magnetic anisotropy, domain walls |
| Lecture 25 (PDF, 12 MB) | 12. Dec. | Experiments with coherent electron beams (Guest Lecture by Hans-Werner Fink) |
| Lecture 26 (PDF, 6 MB) | 13. Dec. | Multiple scattering of light (Guest Lecture by Christof Aegerter) |
| Lecture 27 (PDF, 887 KB) | 19. Dec. | Magnetic heterostructures, quantum well states, giant magnetoresistance |
| Lecture 28 (PDF, 914 KB) | 20. Dec | quantum well states, oscillatory exchange coupling, magnetization dynamics, ultrafast demagnetization, all-optical ultrafast magnetic recording |
Problem Sets
| Problem Sets | Due Date | Solutions |
|---|---|---|
| Problem sheet 0 (PDF, 60 KB) | none | none |
| Problem sheet 1 (PDF, 192 KB) | 4. Oct. 2016 | Solutions set 1 (PDF, 8 MB) |
| Problem sheet 2 (PDF, 1 MB) | 11. Oct. 2016 | Solutions set 2 (PDF, 2 MB) |
| Problem sheet 3 (PDF, 143 KB) | 18. Oct. 2016 | Solutions set 3 (PDF, 1 MB) |
| Problem sheet 4 (PDF, 78 KB) | 25. Oct. 2016 | Solutions set 4 (PDF, 148 KB) |
| Problem sheet 5 (PDF, 93 KB) | 1. Nov. 2016 | Solutions set 5 (PDF, 134 KB) |
| Problem sheet 6 (PDF, 177 KB) | 15. Nov. 2016 | Solutions set 6 (PDF, 156 KB) |
| Problem sheet 7 (PDF, 127 KB) | 29. Nov. 2016 | Solutions set 7 (PDF, 123 KB) |
| Problem sheet 8 (PDF, 249 KB) | 6. Dez. 2016 | Solutions set 8 (PDF, 142 KB) |
| Problem sheet 9 (PDF, 3 MB) | 20. Dez. 2016 | Solutions set 9 (PDF, 114 KB) |
Short Talks on Research Papers