Condensed

Matter Physics
Vorlesung / Lectures: Monday 09h00 – 11h00
Tuesday 09h00-11h00
Raum / Room: Y36-K-08
https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/physik/en/teaching/PHY401/HS2017.html

Johan Chang
johan.chang@physik.uzh.ch

Übungen / Exercise class: Tuesday: 11h15 – 13h00

Raum / Room: Y36-K-08

Daniel Destraz
destraz@physik.uzh.ch
Outline: First lecture

Varia.

Why Condensed Matter Physics?

Course Content.

Goals and methodology.

Announcements: This week

Today

Einladung
Bachelor thesis defense by Kevin Hauser Thursday
Thursday, 21. September 2017, 15.00 Uhr
Irchel: Y36-K-08
Outline: First lecture

Varia.

Why Condensed Matter Physics?

Course Content.

Goals and methodology.

History of Tool making

Stone age Bronze age Iron age Silicon age

Bronze Age

90% Copper
10% Zink

88% Copper
12% Tin
Iron Age – Industrialization
Steam- Engine & Thermodynamics
Newtonian Mechanics

Gas of atoms of molecules

Many-Body Problem
Digital Devices & Quantum Matter

Quantum Mechanics

Gas of electrons

Many-Body Problem
Metals

Semi-conductors Conductors Super-conductors

Communication Power Medical
Technology Transmition Scanning devices
Migrating Birds
Schwarze Sonne
MORE IS DIFFERENT
Outline: First lecture

Varia.

Why Condensed Matter Physics?

Course Content.

Goals and methodology.

Learning out-come
The contents of the Solid State Physics lecture will be consolidated and
expanded to cover further modern topics of condensed matter physics, and the
students will be guided towards the recent literature of this research field.

In the end the students should have attained a solid understanding of the
following phenomena and notions, including their description within the most
basic models:

- Electronic and optical properties of solids

- Various kinds of excitations and quasiparticles in solids
- Magnetic properties and their various origins
- Phenomenology of superconductivity and its microscopic origin

The material will first be discussed in textbook style and then further illustrated
with the help of recent research articles. The students will contribute to the
latter by preparing short talks on seminal research papers. Problem sets for
each topic supplement the module.
Learning out-come
The contents of the Solid State Physics lecture will be consolidated and
expanded to cover further modern topics of condensed matter physics, and the
students will be guided towards the recent literature of this research field.

In the end the students should have attained a solid understanding of the
following phenomena and notions, including their description within the most
basic models:

- (1) Electronic and optical of solids

- (2) Magnetic properties and their various origins
- (3) Phenomenology of superconductivity } Excitations &
Quasiparticles

The material will first be discussed in textbook style and then further illustrated
with the help of recent research articles. The students will contribute to the
latter by preparing short talks on seminal research papers. Problem sets for
each topic supplement the module.
Date Topic Reading Exercises

Week 1: Introduction + Peierls Instability & CDW order

18.09 Introduction Kittel + Notes Recap -exercise
18.09 Perturbation theory –Penney Model
19.09 Peierls Instability
19.09 CDW -order
Week 2: Linear Response Theory - Kramers-Kronig Relations – Greens Functions
25.09 Linear Responses Kittel + Notes
25.09 Causality -> KK-relations
26.09 Green’s Functions
26.09 Examples
Week 3: Band Structure – Quantum Oscillations and ARPES
02.10 QO theory Kittel + Notes
02.10 Experiments

03.10 ARPES Theory

03.10 Experiments
Week 4: Second quantitation applied
09.10 Introduction Notes
09.10 Electron interactions
10.10 Phonon’s second quantization
10.10 Kohn-anomalies
Week 5: Electron – Electron Interaction
16.10 Hartree-Fock equation Kittel
16.10 Electron Screening
17.10 Lindhard Approach
17.10 Hartree-Fock equation
Week 6: Transport Experiments & Boltzmann Theory

23.10 Boltzmann Transport Theory Kittel

23.10 Boltzmann Transport Theory

24.10 Magneto-resistance
24.10 Experiments
Week 7: Magnetism 1
30.10 Diamagnetism Kittel
30.10 Diamagnetism

31.10 Paramagnetism
31.10 Paramagnetism

Week 8: Magnetism 2
06.11 Ferromagnetism Kittel
06.11 Ferromagnetism
07.11 Anti-Ferromagnetism
07.11 Anti-Ferromagnetism
Week 9: Guest topics

13.11 Guest Lecture: Thomas Greber

Magnetism of single atoms and molecules
13.11
14.11 Guest Lecture: Hans Werner Fink
Experiments with coherent electron beams
14.11
Week 10: Superconductivity 1
20.11 Superconductivity Phenomenology Kittel + Notes

20.11 BCS Theory

21.11 BCS Theory
21.11 Experiments
Week 11: Superconductivity 2

27.11 Vortex physics Kittel + Notes

27.11 Unconventional superconductivity

28.11 Josephson Junctions

28.11 Experiments
Week 12: Oxide Materials + Guest lecture
04.12 Guest Lecture: Marta Gibert
04.12 Oxide Electronics

05.12 Guest Lecture: Christof Aegerter

Multiple scattering of light
05.12
Week 13: Oxide Materials
11.12 Building blocks

11.12 Manganites, Nickelates

12.12 Cuprates
12.12 Iridates
Week 14: Literature Club + Course Recap
18.12 Guest Lecture: Andreas Schilling
Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of gases and in solids
18.12
19.12 Recap –
19.12
Concepts:

Perturbation theory?

Second quantization?

Green’s functions?
Outline: First lecture

Varia.

Why Condensed Matter Physics?

Course Content.

Goals and methodology.

Teaching principle:
Constructive Alignment

Goals:
- Understanding of concepts
- General knowledge of
condensed matter
- Develop problem solving skills

Exam:
- Testing understanding of concepts
- Testing general knowledge
- Testing problem solving skills
Course Evaluation (Oral Exam)
Exam structure:

(1) 10 min student presentation of 1 one out of 8 pre-defined topics

(2) 10 min discussion of one of the exercises

(3) 10 min questions spread over the material covered during the lecture

Testing

(1) Testing understanding of concepts.

(2) Testing problem solving skills.

(3) Testing general knowledge.

Exam date: ?? (2018)

Teaching principle:
Constructive Alignment

Goals:
- Understanding of concepts
- General knowledge of
condensed matter Activities:
- Develop problem solving skills - Lectures
- Exercise classes
- Student presentations
Exam:
- Home studies
- Testing understanding of concepts
- Testing general knowledge
- Testing problem solving skills
Practical information
Condensed Matter Physics course = 10 ETCS points

30 ETCS points per semester ⟹ 10 ETCS points ≈ 12 hours per week

Proposed work-load distribution

Lectures + Ex. Class Reading / Studying Solve Exercises

6 hours ~3 hours ~3 hours

Strategy / Advice
(1) Solve the exercises your self.

(2) Read and study continuously

(3) Be active during the lecture and exercise class

Literature

Important notions and concepts will be elaborated at the blackboard. Slides

will also be presented and be made available on the internet. Further
recommended reading:
- Solid State Physics, Neil Ashcroft and David Mermin
- Introduction to Solid State Physics, Charles Kittel
- Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics, Feng Duan, Jin Guojun
 Exercise Class

From the course webpage:

1. Hand in the exercises every Monday.

2. Exercise class is mandatory. Write Daniel in

case of justified absence.

3. You need to have at least 60% of the total points

to qualify for the exam.

4. Exam questions can be related to exercises.

Outline: First lecture

Why Condensed Matter Physics?

Course Content.

Goals and methodology.

Varia.
 Student presentations

Every lecture has 1-2 student presentations

A. Summary presentation (Beginning of each lecture – 5-10 min)

B. Literature presentations
Your task for this week

For tomorrow
(1) Read Kittel – “Peierls Instability of Linear Metals”
Chapter 10

(2) Read notes.

For next week

(3) Checkout the exercise sheet on the course webpage.

(4) Read Kittel – Chapter 11 until “Excitons” section