Extended ToC

0. General issues and introduction

• How to get a certificate
• Tutorials
• What is Condensed Matter Physics?
• What should you have leard before?
• What may you expect from this lecture?
• Link: Nobel prizes in Physics

1. Formation of Solids - short (!) review

2. General diffraction theory

• Review: Basics of diffraction: Bragg, Laue, rec. lattice...
• Link: Nobel prize 1914: M. v. Laue
• Link: Nobel prize 1915: W.H. and W.L. Bragg
• Diffraction theory
• Debye-Waller factor
• Structure factor
• Debye Waller factor
• Link: Online dictionary of crystallography
• Direct imaging by Transmission Electron Microscope
• Selected Area Electron Diffraction. Link: Wang et al., Nature Communications 2012

3. Lattice dynamics

• Reminder: Linear chain (dispersion, optical and acoustic branches, gap)
• Lattice vibrations in 3D crystals
• Phonons 
• Experimental determination of phonon dispersions
• Link: Phonon dispersion database
• Inelastic neutron and x-ray scattering
• Link: Inelastic neutron scattering, ILL, Grenoble
• Link: 3-axis spectrometer IN12, ILL, Grenoble
• Brillouin-, Raman-, IR-scattering
• Link: Venkata Raman Nobel Prize 1930
• Density of states 
• 3D, 1D, Debye model, van Hove singularities

4. Thermal properties of the crystal lattice

• Specific heat
• Einstein-Model, Debye-Model
• Link: Nobelpreis 1936 Chemie: P. Debye
• Low-dimensional systems
• Advanced reading: Thermal properties of graphene: Fundamentals and applications (specific heat, heat transport, phonon dispersion of graphene)
• Thermal expansion
• Grüneisen scaling
• Advanced reading: Pressure-Raman effects and vibrational scaling laws in molecular crystals (link)
• Phononic heat conductivity
• Matthiessen's rule, phonon-phonon scattering
• 3-omega method: heat transport by voltage measurements
• 1D heat transport
• Link: Schwab et al., Measurement of the quantum of thermal conductance, Nature 2000

5. Simple metals

• Electron in a box, boundary conditions
• Electron DOS, Fermi energy
• The Sommerfeld theory
• Specific heat of the free electron gas
• Pauli-Susceptibility
• Electrical conductivity of metals
• Boltzmann transport equation
• 1D metals: Quantized electric and heat transport
• Coupling to phonons: Peierls transition
• Thermal conductivity of metals
• Wiedemann-Franz-law

6. Superconductivity

• Link: www.superconductors.org
• Fundamental properties
• Materials
• 1st and 2nd kind of SCs
• Link: Gallery of pictures of Abrikosov lattice
• Link: Nobel Prize 2003
• Thermodynamics of the type I SC state
• Phenomenological description (London)
• Link: SC levitation
• Link: SC Levitation 2
• Macroscopic wave function, Quantisation
• Microscopic description, BCS-theory
• SC gap
• Josephson effect
• Link: Nobel laureate vs. grad student: a story about Bardeen and Josephson
• SQUID
• Link: Emergent universe - SC dance flashmob

7. Electronic band structure

• Bloch theorem, Bloch electrons
• Link: Felix Bloch: Über die QM der Elektronen in Kristallgittern, 1928
• Nearly free electrons
• Energy gap
• Tight binding model
• Strongly bound electrons, tight binding
• PES, ARPES
• Link: ARPES spectrometer at Spring8, Japan
• Link: Intro to ARPES, Shen group at Stanford University
• Effective mass, meaning of k
• Motion of electrons in E-field
• Bloch oscillations
• Paper on 1st exp observation of Bloch osc: Lyssenko 1997

8. Electrons in external magnetic fields

• Cyclotron resonance
• Landau levels
• Quantum oscillations in magnetic fields
• de Haas-van Alphen effect
• Shubnikov-de Haas effect

9. Semiconductors

• Intrinsic semiconductors; Mass action law of SCs (short reminder)
• Doped SCs, Hydrogen model (short reminder)
• Excitons
• Quantum size effect in semiconducting NPs
• Further reading: Excitons in Nanoscaled Systems (Nature 2006)
• SC heterostructures: pnjunction
• 2D electron gas
• transistor, solar cell

10. Magnetism

• Diamagnetism
• Paramagnetism, Curie law, Curie-Weiss law
• 3d vs 4f magnetism
• Quenching of orbital momentum
• Ferromagnetism
• Stoner Model
• Magnons
• Magnetic domains
• Superparamagnetism
• Giant Magnetoresance GMR