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Physik-Institut

PHY401 Condensed Matter Physics

Lecturer:

Prof. Dr. Marc Janoschek

Prof. Dr. Fabian Natterer
Assistant: Simon Flury
   
Lectures:

Monday, 09:00 - 11:00

Tuesday, 09:00 - 11:00
Exercise Class: Tuesday, 11:15 - 13:00
Start: Monday, 19.09.2021
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.

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Lecture Material and Exercise Sheets

Lecture Date Topic Lecture Material Exercise Sheets
1 19.09. Structure of lecture, Exam Info, Why Condensed Matter? Lecture 1: Introduction and Requirements (PDF, 4 MB)  
2 20.09. Recap Statistical Physics, Heat Capacity

Lecture 2: Slides. Repetition of Thermodynamics (PDF, 663 KB)

Lecture 2. Blackboard Thermodynamics and Statistics (PDF, 1 MB)

Lecture 2: Graphs and Formulas for Heat Capacity (PDF, 253 KB)

 Exercise Sheet 1 (PDF, 111 KB)
3 26.09. Recap: Drude and Sommerfeld Lecture 3 - Drude Sommerfeld (PDF, 1 MB)  
4 27.09. Recap: Sommerfeld and Lattice Lecture 4 - Lattice and reciprocal lattice (PDF, 953 KB) Exercise Sheet 2 (PDF, 90 KB)
5 03.10. Landau Theory and Phase Transitions

Lecture 5: Slides. Intro Phase Transitions (PDF, 3 MB)

Lecture 5: Blackboard. Second Order Phase Transitions and Landau Theory (PDF, 2 MB)

  
6 04.10. First Order Phase Transitions

Lecture 6: Slides. First-Order Phase Transitions (PDF, 3 MB)

Lecture 6: Slides. Inhomogeneous States (PDF, 724 KB)

Lecture 6: Blackboard. First-order phase transitions, Ginzburg-Landau theory (PDF, 2 MB)

 Exercise Sheet 3 (PDF, 142 KB)
7 10.10. Correlation Length

Lecture 7: Slides. Correlation Length (PDF, 2 MB)

Lecture 7: Blackboard. Correlation Lengths and Ginzburg Criterion (PDF, 3 MB)

  
8 11.10. Scaling, Goldstone Modes and Quantum Phase Transitions

Lecture 8: Slides. Scaling, Goldstone Modes and Quantum Phase Transitions (PDF, 7 MB)

Lecture 8: Blackboard. Scaling Relationships and Universality (PDF, 1 MB)

 Exercise Sheet 4 (PDF, 125 KB)
9 17.10. Overview of Presi Topics Presi Topics (PDF, 1 MB)  
10 18.10. Magnetism Introduction Lecture 9 - Intro Magnetism (PDF, 1 MB)

Exercise Sheet 5 (PDF, 156 KB)

Exercise Sheet 5 Dataset T < T_N (CSV, 1 KB)

Exercise Sheet 5 Dataset T > T_N (CSV, 1 KB)

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 24.10. Curie Law, Ferro/Antiferromagnetic order Lecture 10/11 - Magnetism - Curie - Ferro - Antiferro (PDF, 1 MB) Exercise Sheet 6 (PDF, 258 KB)
12 25.10. Magnetic Domains    
13 31.10. Vibrations - Phonons Lecture 11 - Vibrations in a lattice (PDF, 964 KB) Exercise Sheet 7 (PDF, 195 KB)
14 01.11. Artur Glavic - Guest lecture Lecture 12 - Neutron scattering and magnetism (PDF, 11 MB)  
15 07.11. Qubits Lecture 12 - Electron Phonon Coupling - Qubits (PDF, 3 MB) Exercise Sheet 8 (PDF, 135 KB)
16 08.11. Qubits    
17 14.11. Electrons in periodic potential

Lecture 14: Slides - Electronic Band Structures (PDF, 829 KB)

Lecture 14: Blackboard - Electrons in a Periodic Potential (PDF, 5 MB)

 Exercise Sheet 9 (PDF, 156 KB)
18 15.11. Fermi liquid model

Lecture 15: Slides - Landau Fermi Liquid (PDF, 3 MB)

Lecture 15: Blackboard - Landau Fermi Liquid (PDF, 3 MB)

  
19 21.11. Superconductivity I

Lecture 16: Slides - Superconductivity (PDF, 10 MB)

Lecture 16: Blackboard - Superconductivity I (PDF, 3 MB)

 Exercise Sheet 10 (PDF, 95 KB)
20 22.11. Superconductivity II

Lecture 17: Slides - Superconductivity II (PDF, 5 MB)

Lecture 17: Blackboard - Superconductivity II (PDF, 2 MB)

  
21 28.11. Zurag Guguchia - guest lecture - day 1   Exercise Sheet 11 (PDF, 146 KB)
22 29.11. Zurag Guguchia - guest lecture - day 2    
23 05.12. Christof Aegerter - guest lecture  Non-crystalline condensed matter and phase transitions in soft materials (PDF, 4 MB)  
24 06.12. Thomas Greber - guest lecture Low dimensional systems from 2D boron nitride to 0D single-atom magnets (PDF, 26 MB)  
25 12.12. Correlated Electrons Systems Lecture 18: Slides - Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (PDF, 17 MB)  
26 13.12. Student Presi Gerguri Orion (Imaging Heavy Dirac Fermions), Shliakhtun Oksana (Twisted Bilayer Graphene), Wang Siqi (Magnetic Remanence in Single Atoms), Decrausaz Brigitte (Electron Pairing in HTSC)  
27 19.12. Johan Chang - guest lecture    
28 20.12. Student Presi Huber Silvan (electron momentum dependence of electron phonon coupling), Frölich Benjamin (neutron scattering proximate spin liquid)