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0. General issues and introduction (slides)

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

1. Elastic properties of solids (slides)

• Formation of solids, chemical bonds (PEP5)
• Continuum approximation
• Stress tensor
• Strain tensor
• Elasticity tensor
• Young's modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus, Poisson ratio
• Sound waves in solids
• Nobel prize 1991: de Gennes, liquid crystals etc.

2. Lattice Dynamics (slides)

• Reminder: Phonons (PEP5)
• Reminder: DOS (PEP5)
• Experimental determination of phonon disperion: Inelstatic neutron scattering
• Link: Phonon dispersion database
• Link: Inelastic neutron scattering, ILL, Grenoble
• Link: Noble Prize Physics 1994 (neutron scattering techniques)
• Raman scattering
• Link: Venkata Raman Nobel Prize 1930
• Raman vs. IR spectroscopy
• Brillouin scattering

3. Thermal properties of the crystal lattice (slides)

• Density of states
• Reminder: Heat capacity
• Einstein-Model, Debye-Model
• Heat capacity of 2D materials
• Link: Nobelpreis 1936 Chemie: P. Debye
• Advanced reading: Thermal properties of graphene: Fundamentals and applications (specific heat, heat transport, phonon dispersion of graphene)
• Nobel prize 2010: Graphene
• Thermal expansion
• Advanced reading: Elastic and vibrational internal/free energy: Balcerzac2010
• Grüneisen relation
• Advanced reading: Pressure-Raman effects and vibrational scaling laws in molecular crystals (link)
• Reminder: Phononic heat conductivity
• Matthiessen's rule, phonon-phonon scattering
• Advanced reading: Thermal conducitivity of carbon nanotubes (review on current research results)
• 1D heat transport
• Quantisation of heat conductance
• Link: Schwab et al., Measurement of the quantum of thermal conductance, Nature 2000

4. Simple metals (slides)

• Free electron gas model: short review
• The Sommerfeld approximation
• Specific heat of the free electron gas
• Pauli-Susceptibility
• Electrical conductivity of metals
• Boltzmann transport equation
• 1D metals: Quantized electric transport
• Thermal conductivity of metals
• Wiedemann-Franz-law
• 1D metals: Quantized heat transport
• Advanced reading: Quantized thermal transport in single-atom junctions, Science 2017