Welcome to the Advanced Solid-State Physics lecture!

No lectures on 3.11 (Tu) and 16.11 (Mo)! No exercise classes on 12.11 (Th) and 18.11 (W)!

Study materials

List of key terms (with short explanations): updated 8.02.26

Exercises

Problem sheet 1 (exercise classes on 21.10 and 22.10)
Problem sheet 2 (exercise classes on 28.10 and 29.10)
Problem sheet 3 (exercise classes on 4.11 and 5.11)
Problem sheet 4 (exercise classes on 11.11 and 19.11)

Time of the classes: W 15:15 (SR224) and Th 11:15 (SR218)

Seminar

List of seminar topics
You are welcome to propose your own topic too. Send your ideas and wishes via e-mail

Introduction: how to search literature and prepare the talk?

Lecture 10 (17.11.2026): Zoo of topological semimetals

chiral anomaly

Lecture 9 (10.11.2026): From Dirac to Weyl

Fermi arcs

Weyl fermions in solid-state context: short introduction and theoretical overview

Lecture 8 (9.11.2026): Dirac Hamiltonian and its implications

bulk-boundary correspondence

experimental realization of Chern insulators

Live simulation of the Haldane model
Current situation in moiré materials: review and reproducibility aspects

Lecture 7 (2.11.2026): Toward Chern insulator

Laughlin's argument

A topological look at the quantum Hall effect

Lecture 6 (27.10.2026): Band topology

anomalous velocity

Dawn of the topological age, or how topology enters materials physics

Lecture 5 (26.10.2026): Dynamics and geometrical phase

Berry curvature and Berry phase

Aharovon-Bohm effect and geometric phase: an introductory reading
Illustration of the Foucault pendulum

Lecture 4 (20.10.2026): Quantization and conduction on the edge

chiral edge states

Halperin's classical paper on the edge states
Chapter 2 of David Tong's lecture notes, especially if you are interested in the effects of disorder, which we skipped in the class

Lecture 3 (19.10.2026): Hall effect in 2D

Landau levels

Short review of the quantum Hall effect by von Klitzing himself, including applications in metrology
Quantum Hall effect: history of the discovery

Lecture 2 (13.10.2026): All about electrical transport

Hall effect, especially anomalous

Review of the anomalous Hall effect
A Hall lot of effects (brief historical introduction)

Lecture 1 (12.10.2026): How to handle band structures?

tight-binding model

Review of band structures from Topocondmat
Materials Project: your collection of calculated band structures

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