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?
Au
GaN
SiC
Si
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?
Honeycomb
Triangular
Square
Pyrochlore
4. Electrons in periodic materials have a wavefunction described in the form of:
Landau solutions
Aharonov-Bohm solutions
Feynman diagrams
Bloch solutions
5. In which material was superconductivity first discovered?
YBCO
Aluminum
Silicon
Mercury
6. How many types of superconductivity are there?
4
1
2
3
7. Who discovered the tunneling phenomenon in superconductors experimentally?
Landau
Bragg
Giaever
Thomson
8. Which of the alternatives is not a type of magnetism?
Para
Dua
Ferro
Ferri
9. Name a model for studying magnetism?
Bohr
Heisenberg
Einstein
Landau
10. Why is the sky blue? (related to)
Blue light is easy for the eye to observe
The sun sends most blue light
Scattering due to particles
Reflecting the water from the oceans
11. Which term is not related to superconductivity?
Cooper pair
Baryon
Fluxon
BSC theory
12. Graphene is:
Could be all options
A superconductor
A semiconductor
A metal
13. What are phonons?
Light waves in materials
Topological defects in materials
Sound waves in materials
Electron waves in materials
14. Light can be manipulated in so-called:
Photonic K-points
Light lines
Photonic crystals
Light slabs
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