Condensed Matter Physics - physics613
| Course | Condensed Matter Physics |
|---|---|
| Course No. | physics613 |
| Category | Type | Language | Teaching hours | CP | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elective | Lecture with exercises | English | 3+1 | 6 | WT |
Preparation:
Form of Testing and Examination: Requirements for the examination (written or oral): successful work with the exercises
Length of Course: 1 semester
Aims of the Course: Understanding of the concepts of condensed matter physics
Contents of the Course:
Crystallographic structures: Bravais lattices, Millers indices, crystallographic defects, structural analysis; Chemical bonds: van der Waals bond, covalent bond, hybridisation, ionic bond, metallic bond, Hydrogen bridge bond;
Lattice vibrations: acoustic and optical phonons, specific heat, phonon-phonon interaction;
Free electrons in the solid state: free electron gas, Drude model, Fermi distribution, specific heat of the electrons;
Band structure: metals, semiconductors, insulators, effective masses, mobility of charge carrier, pn-transition, basic principles of diodes, bipolar and unipolar transistors;
Superconductivity: basic phenomena, Cooper pairs, BSC-theory and its consequences;
Magnetic properties: diamagnetism, Langevin-theory of paramagnetism, Pauli-paramagnetism, spontaneous magnetic order, molecular field, Heisenberg-exchange;
Nuclear solid state physics: Hyperfine interaction, Mössbauer spectroscopy, perturbed angular correlation, positron annihilation, typical applications.
Recommended Literature:
N. W. Ashcroft , N. D. Mermin , Solid State Physics ( Brooks Cole 1976) ISBN-13: 978-0030839931
N. W. Ashcroft , N. D. Mermin, Festkörphysik (Oldenbourg 2001) ISBN-13: 978-3486248340
H. Ibach, H. Lüth, Solid-State Physics (Springer 2003) ISBN-13: 978-3540438700
H. Ibach, H. Lüth, Festkörperphysik (Springer 2002) ISBN-13: 978-3540427384
C. Kittel, Einführung in die Festkörperphysik (Oldenbourg 2006) ISBN-13: 978-3-486-57773-5
W. Demtröder, Experimentalphysik, Bd. 3. Atome, Moleküle und Festkörper (Springer 2005) ISBN-13: 978-3540214731
K. Kopitzki, P. Herzog Einführung in die Festkörperphysik (Vieweg+Teubner 2007) ISBN-13: 978-3835101449
L. Bergmann, C. Schaefer, R. Kassing, Lehrbuch der Experimentalphysik 6.: Festkörper (Gruyter 2005) ISBN-13: 978-3110174854
W. Buckel, R. Kleiner, Supraleitung (Wiley-VCH 2004) ISBN-13: 978-3527403486