Syllabus

1. New material physics , constructing new ground states, on the known unknown and the unknown unknown, adaptation of known quantum systems, theoretical predictions, starting from scratch.
2. Bulk single crystal synthesis : solution growth (Flux), chemical vapor transport (CVT) growth, solid state growth.
3. Thin film synthesis : pulsed laser deposition, molecular beam epitaxy.
4. Structural characterization methods : powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), single crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD), Laue X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy.
5. Neutron Scattering : introduction, scattering properties, scattering from a lattice, scattering from powder, inelastic scattering, magnetic scattering.
6. Low temperature measurements : liquid Nitrogen, Liquification of Helium and the discovery of superconductivity, cooling below 1 Kelvin, Helium 3, dilution refrigerator, adiabatic demagnetization, low-T thermometry.
7. Thermodynamics : specific heat and heat capacity, DC magnetization, AC susceptibility, de Haas-van Alphen quantum oscillations.
8. Electrical transport : magnetoresistance and temperature dependence in metals, high field measurements (DC vs. Pulsed), Shubnikov de-Hass quantum oscillations, Hall effect, anomalous Hall effect, quantum Hall effect.
9. Thermal transport : thermal conductivity, Seebeck and Peltier effects.
10. Spintronics : Basic concepts, giant magnetoresistance, spin scattering, magnetic tunnel junctions, spin transfer torque, domain wall motion, applications.
11. Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) : introduction, kinematics of photoemission, three-step model and sudden approximation, one-particle spectral function, matrix elements and finite resolution effects, the system, demonstration.
12. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) : introduction, one-dimensional potential barrier model, the WKB tunneling approximation, density of states, Bardeen model, constant current and constant height modes, voltage-dependent imaging, tunneling spectroscopy, differential conductance and its relation to the density of states, asymmetry in the tunneling spectra, spectroscopic imaging.
13. Fabrication, interference and mesoscopic : state-of-the-art fabrication, Aharonov-Bohm rings, universal conductance fluctuations, ballistic wires and quantum dots.

Literature (per chapter)

Chapter 1: New material physics, Paul C Canfield 2020 Rep. Prog. Phys. 83 016501.

Chapter 2: Growth of single crystals from metallic fluxes. P. C. Canfield and Z. Fisk. Philosophical Magazine B 1992, 65, 6.

Chapter 2: Chemical vapor transport reactions – a historical review. Binnewies, Glaum and Schmidt.

Chapters 2+3: Springer Handbook of Crystal Growth, Govindhan Dhanaraj, Kullaiah Byrappa, Vishwanath Prasad, Michael Dudley (Eds.).

Chapter 4: X-ray diffraction crystallography. Yoshida Waseda, Eiichiro Matsubara and Kozo Shinoda. Springer.

Chapter 4: Principles of protein X-ray crystallography. Chapter 12. Jan Drenth. Springer.

Chapter 4: Practical Raman Spectroscopy. D. J. Gardiner and P.R. Graves (Eds.). Springer-Verlag.

Chapter 5: Neutron scattering – A Primer, by Roger Pynn, Los Alamos Neutron Science Center.

Chapter 6: Matter and methods at low temperatures. Frank Pobell. 2007 Springer.

Chapter 7: Specific heats at low temperatures, E.S.R. Gopal, Springer.

Chapter 7: Magnetic measurement Techniques for materials characterization, Victorino Franco, Brad Dodrill (Eds.), Springer.

Chapter 7: Strongly Correlated Systems – Experimental Techniques, Adolfo Avella, Ferdinando Mancini (Eds.), Springer.

Chapter 8: Magnetoresistance in metals. A.B. Pippard. Cambridge University Press.

Chapter 8: Strongly Correlated Systems – Experimental Techniques, Adolfo Avella, Ferdinando Mancini (Eds.), Springer.

Chapter 8: Magnetic oscillation in metals. D. Shoenberg. Cambridge University Press.

Chapter 8: The quantum Hall effect. D.Yoshioka. Springer.

Chapter 9: Thermal conductivity. Theory, properties and applications. Terry M. Tritt (Editor).

Chapter 9: Thermoelectric power of metals. Frank J. Blatt, Peter A. Schroeder, Carl L. Foiles and Denis Greig. Plenum Press. 1976.

Chapter 10: Spintronics, fundamentals and applications. Puja Dey and Jitendra Nath Roy. Springer.

Chapter 11: Strongly Correlated Systems – Experimental Techniques, Adolfo Avella, Ferdinando Mancini (Eds.), Springer.

Chapter 12: Scanning Probe Microscopy, Bert Voigtländer, Springer.

Chapter 13: Mesoscopic physics and electronics. T. Ando, Y. Arakawa, K. Furuya, S. Komiyama and H. Nakashima (Eds.). Springer.