FYSS5420 Quantum Materials (5 cr)

• Ordered phases: order parameter, spontaneous symmetry breaking, critical temperature, coherence length, Goldstone bosons and other collective modes
  
• Magnetism: ferro/ferri/antiferromagnetism, hysteresis curves, ferromagnetic resonance, spin waves, magnetic textures
  
• Superconductivity: Cooper pairing, basic properties of BCS theory, Josephson effect, applications
• Ferroelectricity, multiferroics
• Two-dimensional materials: graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, moiré patterns. Dirac materials
• Topological matter: quantum Hall effect, topological charges, bulk-boundary correspondence, topological insulators, semimetals and superconductors

At the end of the course, the students will be able to

• recognize the main properties of ordered phases of matter 

• describe basic properties of magnets
  

• explain the basic properties of superconductors and the basic theory behind its applications
  
• describe other ordered electronic phases of matter 
  
• describe two-dimensional materials such as graphene
• recognize the main principles of different types of topological materials
  

FYSS5301 and FYSS5302 Materials physics, part A & B or similar

FYSA2030 and FYSA2032 Quantum mechanics, parts A & B or similar

FYSA2040 and FYSA2042 Statistical physics, part A & B or similar

Lecture notes in TIM