Solid State Physics II

5 credits

Course, Master's level, 1TG310

Spring 2025 Spring 2025, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English Only available as part of a programme

Spring 2025 Spring 2025, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English For exchange students

About the course

Dielectric properties: Sources of polarisation, electric fields inside dielectrics, depolarisation, microscopic theories of polarisation.

Paramagnetism och magnetic ordering: Quantum theory of dia- and paramagnetism, exchange interaction, magnetic order: ferro-, ferri- and antiferromagnetism, magnons, anisotropy and domains, soft and hard ferromagnetic materials.

Superconductivity: Phenomenological description, BCS theory, thermodynamics, London equation, thin films, type I and type II superconductors, flux quantisation, electron tunnelling, Josephson effect.

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