Course Identification

Matlab/Python/equivalent

Contemporary condensed matter research involves techniques that rely on intricate quantum effects that enable us to probe various electronic properties. Yesterday's research achievements are today's research tools. The aim of the course is to expose the participants to the variety of modern experimental spectroscopic tools commonly used and reported in the field. This will allow them to better comprehend the broader relevance and impact of their own research, as well as the physical findings reported in scientific papers and talks and the spectroscopic properties therein. It is therefore relevant for condensed matter theorist and experimentalists alike. The tutorials will illustrate the application of those techniques in the research of topological electronic phases. The course and final assignments will involve extracting the physical properties of such electronic systems by analyzing raw data sets acquired by of the various techniques studied.

Among the experimental techniques covered:

• Experimental environment - Cryogenics, Magnets, (Ultra-) high vacuum.
• Electrical transport - Resistivity, Hall effect, Nernst effect, de Haas van Alphen oscillations
• Angular resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)
• Tunneling spectroscopy - planar junctions, point contact, Andreev spectroscopy
• Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy
• Atomic force microscopy (AFM), Kelvin probe,
• Neutron scattering and Muon spin relaxation
• Synchotron radiation - X-ray diffreaction, circular dichroism, resonant inelastic X-ray spectroscopy (RIXS)
• Magnetometry - Hall, SQUID, torque
• Raman spectroscopy, NMR

Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to 

1. Demonstrate familiarity with prominent experimental condensed matter techniques, and the electronic properties probed by them.
2. Comprehend data presented in condensed matter seminars and publications.