This is an underrated video!! Super helpful, and interesting explanations! Didn't know this was how the fields of research were divided. It's definitely gonna take me a while to decide between plasma, optical, condensed matter and nanotechnological physics though.

@EricaCalman

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Those are all good options but you have time, especially if you're still in undergrad. They all have their own merits and challenges but they're all interesting.

Hilarious intro and great detail into the Condensed Matter Physics field. I had no idea what it was prior to watching your video! You may have just changed my academic path! Lol

Great descriptions! I'm a physics student in training, and condensed physics is where I want to go.

Nice content, KZread recommended your vídeo, I'm from Brazil and new in the chanel, talking about science is always hard to attract people, but with good content the algorithm slowly sumon us hehehehe keep going

@EricaCalman

Жыл бұрын

oh awesome, welcome to the channel I guess haha

@EricaCalman

Жыл бұрын

and thanks!

as a physics student at uni trying to figure out what field to go into, thank you for this 😊

New subscriber. Im from ECE Background. I got acceptance from University Wisconsin Madison for masters in physics Quantum computing. So i was searching about condensed matter physics. Beautiful video

Thank you! I was debating if I should do a condensed physics minor as a chemistry major and you really convinced me to do 😁😁

Hey myself vishwas here, it was such an informative video, I am doing MSc and hopefully will be able to learn more about condensed Matter, sadly I am unable to find a theoretical condensed Matter physics PhD student who makes video like you do, it would be really nice if you suggest someone like you in the theoretical side also...

@EricaCalman

6 ай бұрын

Hi, unfortunately I don’t know of anybody who does condensed matter theory videos, although I might cover more of the theory I do know in the future. The best thing I can recommend isn’t videos but these notes by professor Daniel Arovas courses.physics.ucsd.edu/2010/Winter/physics211b/LECTURES/211_COURSE.pdf

Really enjoyed this video

@EricaCalman

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I read Dover’s ‘Solid State Theory’ this last winter and it was amazing. One thing puzzled me, maybe you’ll know the answer, why is the harmonic mean used (in band gap theory or effective mass theory) to calculate electron mobility (or conductivity)? Hope that question made sense. I suspect it has something to do with the geometry of the field as the electron sees it (after all the issue of curvature comes up directly), but I still don’t have a good intuition for it. 😅

@EricaCalman

9 күн бұрын

Oh, I mean I actually hadn’t thought about it that way but I guess you do use the harmonic mean. It’s the same reason you use it when calculating effective resistance of resistors of parallel or conductivity of resistors in series. Electron mobility is scattering time divided by effective mass so if you have more than one effective mass (eg an anisotropic material) you use the harmonic mean of those masses to calculate mobility.

@millamulisha

9 күн бұрын

@@EricaCalman Oh okay. That actually makes more sense. I searched the web prior to asking and came up empty handed. I’m a mathematician and don’t have great physics intuition. Thanks for the solid answer (pun intended). 😜

Outstanding

@EricaCalman

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I enjoyed your video. I want to specialize on condensed matter physics

@EricaCalman

6 ай бұрын

That’s awesome! I think it’s an interesting rewarding field to do research in so I’m glad you’re interested, good luck!

Hi! Very informative video. I am working on a project that requires knowledge of condensed matter physics (in particular BECs and spin waves/magnons); do you happen to tutor in it? I would greatly appreciate any help, thanks!

@EricaCalman

9 ай бұрын

Sort of, I used to tutor quantum mechanics and other undergraduate classes. I'm happy to answer any questions, you can find my email on my channel page or just ask them here.

I'm thinking to choose condensed matter physics for my matsters. Astrophysics is love but I wanna do experiments. Please say good luck to me 🥺

@EricaCalman

8 ай бұрын

That’s awesome, good luck!

Hi! very informative video, i want to get some from you if you don't mind. i have complete my bechlor degree in physics . I want to continous my study futher in physics but I am stuck in fields selection. which one area is best physics can you guaid me.

@EricaCalman

7 ай бұрын

Well there's not really a "best" area of physics, it all depends on what interests you. I outlined some of the benefits of condensed matter in the video, namely that you'll be working on smaller projects and get to do more hands on lab-work if you're an experimentalist and get quicker feedback on the validity of your ideas if you're a theorist. Astro, particle, plasma and AMO physics are all good too though. I'd recommend doing neutrinos of heavy ions if you do particle physics but I'd recommend reading some review papers from fields that peak your interest and see if the details still seem interesting to you.

People say I am just plucked guitar strings. But nobody can produce structures with guitar strings. Using My process I have made three component structures. I believe each of the component’s represents a field. I have to induce some energy in the middle field by using Euler’s contain column method for my ground state energy level. Then I compress it in my viselike press to raise to higher energy levels. I made the structure by adding a sheet above and below the center sheet. When I had compress the center sheet as much as I could, I would bond the contact points. The long duration and close proximity of the Sheets field to each other would be ideal in nature for bonding interaction to occur. it would be wild if you took some fields and bonded them together that be something. They say in engineering that trusses are built from a minimum amount of material. to me this shows how something as whimsical as a field can produced a condensed matter structure (if I am using the phrase correctly).12:52

Erica what am I looking at?

@EricaCalman

5 ай бұрын

In the thumbnail? That's a rendering of a van der Waals quantum well structure.

This field model may be related to the your topic. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaZ21dOidZPcd5c.htmlsi=waT8lY2iX-wJdjO3 Thanks for your informative and well produced video. You and your viewers might find the quantum-like analog interesting and useful. I have been trying to describe the “U” shape wave that is produced in my amateur science mechanical model in the video link. I hear if you over-lap all the waves together using Fournier Transforms, it may make a “U” shape or square wave. Can this be correct representation Feynman Path Integrals? In the model, “U” shape waves are produced as the loading increases and just before the wave-like function shifts to the next higher energy level. Your viewers might be interested in seeing the load verse deflection graph in white paper found elsewhere on my KZread channel. Actually replicating it with a sheet of clear folder plastic and tape. Seeing it first hand is worth the effort. 8:36

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