Summer Semester 2021
The 2021 summer semester runs from April 1st 2021 - September 30th 2021. Owing to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, several courses will take place wholly or partly online. Lectures will run from April 12th-May 21st and then May 31st-July 24th.
The online platform used by TU Dresden is called Opal. If you do not already have an Opal account, you can register for one here. Once you have access you will be able to view the course materials for at least some of the courses listed here.
General lecture: Tensor Networks
| lecturer: | Jun. Prof. Hong-Hao Tu | |
| time: | Monday, Thursdays 14:50-16:20 starting April 12th | |
| location: | Via Zoom | |
| content: | Tensor networks have wide applications in physics and other scientific disciplines. This course will give an introduction to this rapid evolving field, with an emphasis on the analytical and numerical applications of tensor networks in quantum many-body physics. Various important topics, such as matrix product states, density matrix renormalization group, projected entangled-pair states, and tensor renormalization, will be covered. |
General lecture: Theoretical Femtosecond Physics
| lecturer: | Prof. Frank Grossmann | |
| time: | Mondays 11:10-12:40; Friday 13:00-14:30 | |
| location: | Via Zoom | |
| content: | -Time-dependent Schrödinger equation: analytical and numerical approaches -Field-matter coupling and two-level systems: Different gauges, Rabi oscillations, Landau-Zener transitions -Atoms in strong laser fields: Ionization and high harmonic generation -Molecules in strong laser fields: H2+ molecule, Born-Oppenheimer approximation, pump-probe, coherent control |
General lecture: Theoretical Biophysics
| lecturer: | Prof. F. Jülicher and Dr. Christoph Weber | |
| time: | Lecture: Tuesdays 11:10-12:40; Tutorial: Thursdays 14:50-16:20 | |
| location: | Zoom | |
| content: | Statistical Physics of polymers and biological membranes, active processes, stochastic motion in potential energy landscapes, dynamics of biological molecules |
General lecture: Nanostructured Materials
| lecturer: | Prof. G. Cuniberti |
| time: | Tuesdays 09:20-10:50; Wednesdays 13:00-14:30 starting April 14th |
| location: | Opal |
| content: | scaling laws, mesoscopic systems, quantum effects - synthesis of clusters and nanotubes - density of states and electron transport in low-dimensional systems - theoretical foundations of scanning tunnelling microscopy, atomic force microscopy, chemical atomic force microscopy, and near-field scanning optical microscopy - nanostructuring via electron beam lithography, optical lithography, and scanning probe techniques - giant magnetoresistance, single-electron devices - micrifluidics and colloids - lab classes |
General lecture: Network Dynamics and Research on Complex Systems
| lecturer: | Prof. Marc Timme |
| time: | Wednesdays 11:50-16:20; Thursdays 11:10-12:40 starting April 14th |
| location: | Opal |
| content: | Complex Systems are all around us and most of them are dynamic. Many systems show properties of networks, with many units interacting via intricate topologies. Examples include neural networks in the brain, electric power grids, air transportation networks as well as metabolic or gene regulatory networks in the cell. To understand their collective behavior is far from trivial. Here, we learn methods and tools to grasp why physics thinking may contribute substantially to understand collective structural and dynamical phenomena and the mechanisms underlying them, why some systems may be more complex than others and how to approach analyzing, predicting or even controlling multi-dimensional complex dynamical systems. The course will take place online via Zoom with the option for in-person lectures to be discussed during the course and depending on the situation later in the semester. More details are available in the OPAL course. |
General lecture: Chaos and Quantum Chaos
| lecturer: | Prof. R. Ketzmerick |
| time: | prerecorded videos - 3x45 minutes each week; exercises Monday, 13:00 via video conference starting April 12th |
| location: | Online lectures |
| content: | Hamiltonian chaos: dynamical systems, KAM-theorem, origin of chaotic dynamics, transport in phase space. Quantum signatures of chaos: spectra, eigenstates, semiclassics, Gutzwiller trace formula, random matrix theory, experimental systems. Computer simulations will be used for visualization. |
Special lecture: Molecular Nanostructures
| lecturer: | Prof. B. Büchner |
| time: | Mondays 09:20-10:50 from April 12th |
| location: | Distance learning |
| content: | The lecture will address the following apects of molecular nanostructures: - High resolution microscopy (TEM, STM ...) - Chemical bonds in molecular nanostructures - Synthesis and functionalisation of molecular nanostructures - Physical properties and applications of molecular nanostructures - Molecular magnetism - Transport properties of graphene |
Special lecture: Condensed Matter Research with Neutrons and X-rays
| lecturer: | Jochen Geck and Dmytro Inosov | |
| time: | Mondays 14:50-16:20. Starting April 12th | |
| location: | Zoom and Opal | |
| content: | This course provides an introduction to condensed matter research by means of modern x-ray and neutron experiments. The following topics will be covered: X-ray and neutron sources, interaction between radiation and matter, scattering and spectroscopy with x-ray and neutrons, applications in the field of novel electronic phenomena in complex quantum materials. |