After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the content presented in the lecture. They are also able to draw conclusions from if, and to actively communicate it to others.

Motivation, materials in the focus of present research, Landau theory of Fermi liquids, the concept of quasiparticles, elementary excitations (phonon, soliton, magnon, paramagnon, spinon, holon, etc.), interactions (electron-phonon, electron-spin, electron-photon), modern methods in solid state physics - calculation of the electronic structure.

Frontal lecture

The lecture is held in FH HS 6, wednesdays, 2.15 to 3.45 p.m.  Lecture notes are available (dowload from TISS or as a soft cover version at the TU Verlag). In the fall term 2020/21, the class starts with a zoom administrative introduction on Oct. 7 and the 1st  lecture in hybrid teaching mode on Oct. 14.

Individual oral exam. Please arrange your examination date/time by emai:

paschen@ifp.tuwien.ac.at

kunes@ifp.tuwien.ac.at

Lecture notes for this course are available

LectureTube recordings of lectures in hybrid mode on TUWEL.