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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Olena Gomonay; Prof. Dr. Jairo Sinova
Event type:
Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
08.128.754
Hours per week:
4
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
The course is given in English. We use Teams for on-line discussions (in case of COVID restrictions) and pre-recorded Panopto video lectures accesible through the course site. We also provide ppt presentations of the lectures.
Compulsory attendance:
We anticipate active participation in the discussions of the course content (flipped classroom). This needs preliminary work with the material (videolectures, books etc).
Contents:
The course is oriented on the bachelor/master students willing to work in the field of the condensed matter physics. This course is continuation of the basics of the condensed matter physics (08.128.180) in summer semester and includes special sections such as spintronics, magnetism, transport phenomena, numerical approaches.
We focus on spintronics of antiferromagnets (principles and theoretical approaches), details of transport and linear response theory, introduction into numerics (from micromagnetic and atomistic to ab initio calculations). Some of the topics could be additionally included on demand, e.g. advance symmetry analysis and group theory in solid state, topological phases of matter, far from equilibrium dynamics
Recommended reading list:
Main topics
Crystal lattices. Symmetries. Determination of crystal structures.
Noninteracting electrons in a periodic potential. Electrons in a weak periodic potential. The tight-binding methods. Dynamics of Bloch electrons. Semiclassical dynamics and quantizing effects.
Dynamics of the lattice. Classical and quantum theories of the harmonic crystal. Anharmonic effects in crystals.
Transport phenomena.
Semiconductors. Optical properties of semiconductors.
Magnetism and spintronics.
Topological effects.
Recommended reading list:
1. M. P. Marder. Condensed Matter Physics. Wiiley, 2010.
2. N. W. Ashcroft; N. D. Mermin. Solid State Physics. Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Saunders college, 1976.
3. R. Gross and A. Marx. Festkörperphysik. De Gruyter Studium, 2014.
4. Ch. Kittel: Quantum Theory of Solids, Wiley, 1987
Digital teaching:
The course is organised as a flipped classroom in which the students watch online lectures and collaborate in online discussions under the teacher's guidance.
Additional information:
We combine lectures with practical training, especially in numerics. Additional tutorials (if necessary) could be organised on demand. We also invite leading experts for the tutorials on the advances topics and numerics.
Digital teaching:
The course is organised as a flipped classroom in which the students watch online lectures and collaborate in online or on-site discussions under the teacher's guidance. The course also includes tutorials on different numerics technique which implies active computer simulations/coding. Practice in python is desirable but not compulsory.
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