PHY401 Condensed Matter Physics
| Lecturer: | Prof. Dr. Johan Chang |
| Assistant: | Daniel Destraz |
| Lectures: |
Monday, 09:00 - 11:00 Tuesday, 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Exercise Class: | Tuesday, 11:15 - 13:00 |
| Start: | Monday, 18.09.2017 |
| Location: | Y36-K-08 |
Further Information can be found in the course catalogue.
Rules for the exercise sheets
1. Hand in the exercise sheets on Monday during the lecture.
2. You need to have at least 60% of the total points to qualify for the exam.
3. You should hand in every exercise sheet and attend the exercise classes.
4. Exam questions can be related to the exercise sheets and the discussions during exercise class.
Lecture Material and Exercise Sheets
| Lecture Number | Date | Topic | Lecture Material | Exercise Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18.09. | introduction, perturbation theory, Kronig Penney model | Slides 1 (PDF, 7 MB) | |
| 2 | 19.09. | Peierls instability, CDW order | Peierls transition (PDF, 98 KB) | |
| 3 | 25.09. | Peierls instability, CDW order | ||
| 4 | 26.09. | linear responses, causality, Kramers-Kronig relations |
Slides 4 (PDF, 1 MB) |
Sheet 2 (PDF, 171 KB) |
| 5 | 02.10. | quantum oscillations | Slides 5 (PDF, 7 MB) | |
| 6 | 03.10. | ARPES | Slides 6 (PDF, 6 MB) | Sheet 3 (PDF, 173 KB) |
| 7 | 09.10. | phonons, second quantization | Slides 7 (PDF, 3 MB) | |
| 8 | 10.10. | second quantization for fermions | Slides 8 (PDF, 52 KB) | Sheet 4 (PDF, 736 KB) |
| 9 | 16.10. | Fermi liquid, Mott insulators | Slides 9 (PDF, 3 MB) | |
| 10 | 17.10. | quasiparticles (polarons, polaritons, excitons) | Slides 10 (PDF, 2 MB) | Sheet 5 (PDF, 192 KB) |
| 11 | 23.10. | quasiparticles (polarons, polaritons, excitons) | Slides 11 (PDF, 668 KB) | |
| 12 | 24.10. | literature presentations (quantum oscillations, Fermi liquid, Mott insulators) | Slides 12 (PDF, 2 MB) | Sheet 6 (PDF, 202 KB) |
| 13 | 30.10. | paramagnetism, diamagnetism | Slides 13 (PDF, 2 MB) | |
| 14 | 31.10. | paramagnetism, diamagnetism | Slides 14 (PDF, 12 MB) | Sheet 7 (PDF, 200 KB) |
| 15 | 06.11. | ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism | ||
| 16 | 07.11. | ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism | Slides 16 (PDF, 5 MB) | Sheet 8 (PDF, 180 KB) |
| 17 | 13.11. | Thomas Greber: Magnetism of single atoms and molecules | Slides 17 (PDF, 6 MB) | |
| 18 | 14.11. | Hans-Werner Fink: Experiments with coherent electron beams | Slides 18 (PDF, 8 MB) | Sheet 9 (PDF, 275 KB) |
| 19 | 20.11. | Superconductivity | Slides 19 (PDF, 2 MB) | |
| 20 | 21.11. | Superconductivity | Slides 20 (PDF, 3 MB) | Sheet 10 (PDF, 148 KB) |
| 21 | 27.11. | Superconductivity | Slides 21 (PDF, 4 MB) | |
| 22 | 28.11. | Superconductivity | Slides 22 (PDF, 10 MB) | Sheet 11 (PDF, 179 KB) |
| 23 | 04.12. | Maria Gibert: oxide electronics | Slides 23 (PDF, 9 MB) | |
| 24 | 05.12. | Christof Aegerter: multiple scattering of light | Slides 24 (PDF, 2 MB) | Sheet 12 (PDF, 220 KB) |
| 25 | 11.12. | literature presentations (magnetism, superconductivity) | Slides 25 (PDF, 11 MB) | |
| 26 | 12.12. | literature presentations (magnetism, superconductivity) | ||
| 27 | 18.12. | Andreas Schilling: Bose-Einstein condensaion | Slides 27 (PDF, 3 MB) | |
| 28 |
19.12. |
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