Solid State Physics

I'm supposed to take the final exam of Solid State Physics at Thursday, 8:30 am. Oh my godness! It's too early. I'm not an early bird. :-(

I could find many interesting research topics in this course.


1. Para/Dia/Ferro/Ferri/Antiferro maganetism

It brings me some concise equations expressing the nature of those phenomena.
I hate complex equations those aren't able to be derived in at most 10 steps.

The standard models in these subject such as Ising model, Heisenberg Hamiltonian and tools like the mean field theory have been applied to the complex network theory successfully.

2. Superconductivity

I like this topics, but this was lectured by T.A. because the professor had to attend on the conferences abroad. However, that T.A. was not good at teaching. I couldn't help studying by myself on these topics, and then the result is not satisfactory.

However, this topic includes the research topics not explained yet, which can be a way to go. Also this is the representative critical phenomena having phase transition.


Because this course is an undergraduate solid state physics course, many topics have been treated and cannot be studied extensively about each topic. Sadly, I have to cram all the minor ideas and equations into my head for the exam.