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

Materials for the course

Block I: Structure and dynamics of crystals

• Lecture 1: Introduction and crystal structures
• Lecture 2: X-ray and neutron scattering form factors
• Lecture 3: Scattering from periodic structures
• Lecture 4: Phonons in crystals (classical description)
• Lecture 5: Phonons in crystals (second quantisation)

Block II: Structure and dynamics of liquids

Block III: Experimental techniques to determine structure and dynamics

Additional materials

• Notes on X-ray and neutron scattering
• Shape memory effect (video explanation)
• Acoustic and optic phonons (illustrations)

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