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