Condensed matter physics

The term condensed matter includes the solid and liquid states of matter, plus more exotic states like the Bose-Einstein Condensate.

Topics

• Solid
  • Crystalline solid
    • bandgap
    • Bloch waves (electron waves in lattice)
    • conduction band
    • crystal lattice
    • effective mass
    • electrical conduction
    • electron hole
    • electron gas
    • phonons (lattice vibrations)
    • valence band
  • Amorphous solid
  • Alloy
  • Metal
  • Semiconductor
  • Insulator
  • Luttinger liquid
  • Antiferromagnet
  • Ferromagnet
    • Magnon
    • Magnetic resonance
  • Spin glass
  • Ferroelectric
• Surface
• Interface
• Soft matter
  • Polymer
  • Membrane
  • Liquid crystal
  • Electronic liquid crystal
• Liquid
  • Complex fluid
  • Superfluid
• Granular matter
• Order parameter
• Quasiparticle
• Topological defect

Phenomena

• Superconductivity
• Magnetism
• Hall effect and Quantum Hall effect
• Kondo effect
• Bose-Einstein condensate
• Fermionic condensate
• Phase transitions
• glass transition

See also

• States of matter
• Phase (matter)