Solid state physics IV
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Welcome to the course Solid State Physics IV
Place: BS 260
Lectures: Wednesdays 12:15-14:15
Exercises 14:15-16:00
Literature: Transition Metal Compounds by Daniel I. Khomskii within EPFL you should have online access here.
- Example final report (File)
- Announcements (Forum)
- Handwritten lecture notes (Folder)
- Project List papers (File)
- Paper assignment (File)
- SCHEDULE Exam SSP4 2025 (File)
19 February - 23 February
Lecture: Introduction to course, localized and itinerant electrons
- Lesson1 band stucture (File)
- Reffitt installation (File)
- MStudio installation manual (File)
- CTM4XAS Installation guide (File)
26 Feb - 2 March
7 March - 11 March
- Papers (Folder)
- MStudio Exercises (File)
- Exercise 3 -2024 (File)
- Exercise 2 - 2024 (File)
- Exercise 2 Solution - 2024 (File)
- Lecture 3 slides (File)
17 March -21 March
- Original Heitler-London Paper (File)
- XMCD Papers (Folder)
- Reference for Crystal field and Quenching (URL)
- CTM4XAS Installation guide (File)
- Exercise 4 (File)
- Solution Exercise 4 (File)
21 March - 25 March
- Article: example of spin-orbit in d3 (File)
- Article: discovery of Mott insulator in 5d iridate (File)
- Exercise 5 - 2024 (File)
- Exercise 5 Solutions - 2024 (File)
- Article Zhang Rice singlets (File)
- Exercise 6 2023 (File)
- Exercise 6 Solutions 2023 (File)
- ZRS - Slides (URL)
Lecture: Zhang-Rice singlets; Magnetic interactions
Reading: Khomskii chapters 4.4 and 5.1 (5.3.3, 5.4 and 5.5 less thorough)
Important: do read pages 134-136.
7 April - 11 April
14 April - 18 April
- Exercise session 7_Optical conductivity (File)
- Reflectivity data (Folder)
- Optical properties of simple metal (Al) (File)
- L9 slides (File)
- Exercise session SSPIV 30 April 2025 (File)
- Correction exercise session topology and superconductivity (File)
- Exercise 13 (File)
- Slides lecture 10 (File)
- Paper List (URL)
- Slides BCS/Higgs (URL)
- Slides lecture 12 degeneracy lifting (File)
Lecture: Exam info and Current trends - reading cond-mat
Lecture: Quantum Phase transitions