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PHYS-H402

Collective and cooperative phenomena in solids

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Nicolas PAULY (Coordinator) and Xavier ROTTENBERG

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

english

Course content

Cohesion energy

classification of solids

Bloch electron transport formalisms

electrical and thermal conductivities

de Haas-van Alphen effect

Physics of phonons

electron-electron interaction in metals, plasmons,...

Teaching methods and learning activities

24h course

24h exercises

24h laboratories

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

N.W. Ashcroft and N.D. Mermin, Solid State Physics, Saunders College Publishing.

Other information

Contacts

Prof. Nicolas Pauly

nipauly@ulb.ac.be

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

Course + exercises : written examination

laboratories : continuous evaluation

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

course : 50%

exercises : 25%

laboratories: 25%

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french

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