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 2017

  1. Introduction - March 6, 2017: Slides
  2. Quantization - March 8, 2017: Slides
  3. Quantization of light in vacuum - March 10, 2017: Slides
  4. Photonic crystals - March 13, 2017: Slides
  5. Photonic crystals / electrons - March 15, 2017: Slides
  6. Electrons - March 17, 2017: Slides
  7. Electrons / Fermi Surface - March 20, 2017: Slides
  8. Band Structure / Tight Binding - March 22, 2017: Slides
  9. Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes - March 24, 2017: Slides
  10. Photemission / Semiconductors - March 27, 2017: Slides
  11. Electrons in a Magnetic Field - March 29, 2017: Slides
  12. Electrons in a Magnetic Field - March 31, 2017: Slides
  13. Quantum Hall Effect - April 3, 2017: Slides
  14. Landau Levels - April 5, 2017: Slides
  15. Linear response theory - April 7, 2017: Slides
  16. Dielectric properties of insulators - April 24, 2017: Slides
  17. Dielectric properties of insulators - April 26, 2017: Slides
  18. Dielectric properties of insulators and metals - April 28, 2017: Slides
  19. Dielectric properties of metals - May 3, 2017: Slides
  20. Magnetism - May 5, 2017: Slides
  21. Magnetism - May 8, 2017: Slides
  22. Ferromagnetism - May 10, 2017: Slides
  23. Applications of magnetism - May 12, 2017: Slides
  24. Transport - May 15, 2017: Slides
  25. Transport - May 17, 2017: Slides
  26. Transport - May 19, 2017: Slides
  27. Crystal Physics - May 22, 2017: Slides
  28. Crystal Physics - May 24, 2017: Slides
  29. Phase transitions - May 26, 2017: Slides
  30. Metal-Insulator transitions - May 29, 2017: Slides
  31. Single-electron effects - May 31, 2017: Slides
  32. Metal-Insulator transitions - June 2, 2017: Slides
  33. Metal-Insulator transitions - June 7, 2017: Slides
  34. Landau Theory of Fermi Liquids - June 9, 2017: Slides
  35. Metal-Insulator transitions - June 12, 2017: Slides
  36. Magnons and plasmons - June 14, 2017: Slides
  37. Polaritons, polarons, exictons - June 19, 2017: Slides
  38. Excitons, Ferroelectricity - June 21, 2017: Slides
  39. Ferroelectricity, Piezoelectricity - June 23, 2017: Slides
  40. Landau Theory of Phase Transitions - June 26, 2017: Slides
  41. Landau Theory, Superconductivity - June 28, 2017: Slides

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