Condensed matter physics

Are you planning to take a degree in condensed matter physics? Maybe you even have one already? Nonetheless, play along! Hopefully there are both easy and advanced questions.
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1. What is the most commonly used semiconductor material?
SiC
Au
Si
GaN
2. Name a easy melt-based technique used to grow silicon?
Volmer–Weber
Czochralski
Molecular beam epitaxy
3. Brillouin zone of graphene in k-space?
Triangular
Pyrochlore
Square
Honeycomb
4. Electrons in periodic materials have a wavefunction described in the form of:
Landau solutions
Feynman diagrams
Aharonov-Bohm solutions
Bloch solutions
5. In which material was superconductivity first discovered?
Silicon
YBCO
Mercury
Aluminum
6. How many types of superconductivity are there?
4
1
2
3
7. Who discovered the tunneling phenomenon in superconductors experimentally?
Giaever
Landau
Bragg
Thomson
8. Which of the alternatives is not a type of magnetism?
Ferro
Ferri
Dua
Para
9. Name a model for studying magnetism?
Heisenberg
Landau
Einstein
Bohr
10. Why is the sky blue? (related to)
Reflecting the water from the oceans
Scattering due to particles
The sun sends most blue light
Blue light is easy for the eye to observe
11. Which term is not related to superconductivity?
Cooper pair
BSC theory
Baryon
Fluxon
12. Graphene is:
A superconductor
A metal
Could be all options
A semiconductor
13. What are phonons?
Topological defects in materials
Light waves in materials
Sound waves in materials
Electron waves in materials
14. Light can be manipulated in so-called:
Light slabs
Light lines
Photonic crystals
Photonic K-points
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