Advanced Condensed Matter Physics

Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (20-12-713)

Room 1  -  Sun. & Tue. 15:00 - 16:30

Final exam (2025): 1403/3/18     @ 13:30


 

 

Syllabus (2024-25):

  • Transport in Intrinsic and Homogeneously Doped Semiconductors 

  • Transport in Inhomogeneous Semiconductors 

  • Electron Gas in Magnetic Fields

  • Magnetic Properties of Localized Systems and Kondo Impurities 

  • Magnetic Ordering in Crystals

  • Topology: An Introduction and Insulators

 

Syllabus (2024):

  • Second quantization

  • Electronic and optical properties of:

    • Free-electron systems (review)

    • Correlated electron systems

  • Fermi liquid theory

  • Symmetry breaking

    • Quantum magnetism

    • Superconductivity (BCS, GL, quantum phase transition, order, psudogap phase)

    • Spin liquid

  • Topological phases

    • Band inversion

    • flat bands

  • Kitaev model 

 


 

References:

 

  • Solid State Physics, G. Grosso and G. Parravicini (Academic Press; 2nd Ed., 2014)

 

 

 

  • Altland, Alexander, Simons, Ben, Condensed Matter Field Theory, Cambridge  University Press

Condensed Matter Field Theory: Altland, Alexander, Simons, Ben D.:  9780521769754: Amazon.com: Books

 

  • Michael P. Marder, Condensed Matter Physics, John Wiley & Sons

 

  • Philip Phillips, Advanced Solid State Physics, Cambridge University Press

 

  • Eduardo Fradkin, Field Theories of Condensed Matter Physics, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press

 

  • J. Solyom & A. Piroth, Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids: Volume 1: Structure and Dynamics:  Sólyom, Jenö, Piróth, A.: 9783540725992: Amazon.com: Books

 

  • Patrik Fazekas, Lecture Notes on Electron Correlation and Magnetism, World Scientific

LECTURE NOTES ON ELECTRON CORRELATION AND MAGNETISM (Modern Condensed  Matter Physics): Fazekas, Patrik: 9789810224745: Amazon.com: Books

 

  • Grosso, Giuseppe, Parravicini, Giuseppe Pastori, Solid State Physics, 2nd Ed., Academic Press 

Solid State Physics: Grosso, Giuseppe, Parravicini, Giuseppe Pastori:  9780123850300: Amazon.com: Books