Advanced topics in condensed matter

Acronym: PHY-VFATCM

Dr. Ivan Zaluzhnyy
Dr. Harish Srinivasan
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Frank Schreiber

Wednesday 16.15-17.45, C9A03
First lecture in 2025: 15.10.2025
Language: English

Lecture in the Alma-Portal and in Ilias

Notes and information about the course

Description of the course and tentative table of contents

Keywords

Structure of crystals and liquids
Phonons in crystals
Correlation functions in liquids
Brownian and non-Brownian diffusion
Continuous time random walk
Scattering of neutrons and X-rays

Materials for the course

Block I: Structure and dynamics of crystals

Lecture 1: Introduction and crystal structures

Block II: Structure and dynamics of liquids

Block III: Experimental techniqeus to determine structure and dynamics

Literature

N. W. Ashcroft & N. D. Mermin, Solid State Physics, Saunders College Publishing, 1976
S H. Simon, The Oxford Solid State Basics, Oxford University Press, 2013
P. Chaikin & T. Lubensky, Principles of Condensed Matter Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1995
J. M. Ziman, Principles of the Theory of Solids, Cambridge University Press, 1972
J. Als-Nielsen & D. Mc Morrow, Elements of Modern X-ray Physics, Wiley, Chichester, 2001
G. L. Squires, Introduction to the Theory of Thermal Neutron Scattering, Dover Publications, inc. 1996