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Introductory condensed matter physics

Lecture log

Academic year 2025/2026
Lecturer Giuseppe La Rocca

Lecture

  • 28 Jan 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    lezione 0 : elementi di fisica statistica, distribuzione di Boltzmann, equipartizione dell'energia, statistiche quantistiche

  • 03 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Lezione 1-2 : gas, liquid and solid phases, X-ray scattering, structure factor, reciprocal lattice

  • 10 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    lezione 3-4: elements of crystallography, types of solids (molecular, ionic, covalent, metallic)

  • 13 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    lezione 5-6: Debye-Waller factor, acoustic and optical phonons, Einstein and Debye models, specific heat of insulators

  • 17 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    lezione 7-8: free electron model of metals, Pauli paramagnetism, Drude conductivity, assumptions of the electronic band theory of crystals

  • 20 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    lezione 9-10: Bloch wave functions, nearly free electron model, tight-binding model, effective mass, holes, limitations of the band structure theory

  • 24 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    lezione 11-12: perturbative calculation of the dielectric function, oscillator strength sum rule, direct optical transitions in solids and critical points

  • 27 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    lezione 13-14: indirect transitions, plasmons, exciton, polaritons

  • 03 Mar 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    lezione 15-16 : basic elements of nonlinear optics, quantum confinement and low-dimensional structures, optical transitions in quantum wells

  • 06 Mar 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Lezione 17-18: microcavities, microcavity polaritons, photonic crystals

  • 10 Mar 2026 (2h 00m)

    GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    lezione 19-20: plasmonics, electromagnetically induced transparency, spatial Kramers Kronig relations

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