Syllabus1. Introductory Remarks1.1 Overview of chemical bonding 1.2 Overview of the electronic structure of solids & the Periodic Table of Elements 2. Metal-Insulator Transitions 2.1 K0.3MoO3 & RTe3 (CDW compounds) 2.2 MnO, (La1-xSrx)TiO3 & La2-xSrxCuO4 (Mott insulators) 3. Phase Transitions 3.1 Gd (Thermal phase transitions) 3.2 BiFeO3 (Coupled order parameters and multiferroics) 3.3 LiHoF4 (Quantum phase transitions) 4. Magnetism 4.1 KCuF3, BaCuSi2O6 & MEM(TCNQ)2 (quantum effects in low-dimensional magnets) 4.2 Dy2Ti2O7 & ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 (Frustration: spin ice, spin liquids & order-by-disorder) 4.3 (La,Ca)MnO3 & LaTiO3 (Charge order, orbital order, and orbital fluctuations) 5. Superconductivity 5.1 Pb, Nb3Sn, MgB2 & H3S (e-ph interaction and the BCS theory of superconductivity) 5.2 La2-xSrxCuO4 & co. (HTSC part 1: cuprates) 5.3 Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 & co. (HTSC part 2: Fe-based superconductivity) 6. 2D Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces 6.1 Graphene & TMDCs (2D and van de Waals materials) 6.2 Bi2Se3 (topological insulators) 6.3 Co/Cu multilayers & Co/STO/LSMO (Spin valves and tunneling magnetoresistance) 6.4 LaAlO3/SrTiO3 & LaTiO3/SrTiO3 (emergent effects in complex oxide heterostructures)
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