nLab solid state physics -- contents

• basics

  • Slater determinant

  • degeneracy pressure

• crystal

  • crystallographic group

  • Bravais lattice

• Bloch theory

• electronic band structure

  • valence bundle, conduction bundle

  • valence band, conduction band

• Berry connection

  • Berry phase, Zak phase

• phase of matter

  • insulator, topological insulator

  • metal/conductor, semi-conductor, semi-metal,

  • superconductor

  • strange metal

• topological phase of matter, topological state of matter

  • symmetry protected topological phase

  • K-theory classification of topological phases of matter

• topological order

  anyons

• Examples

  • graphene, Haldane model,

  • quantum Hall effect)

• AdS-CFT in condensed matter physics

  • tensor network state

• Levin-Wen model

• Josephson effect