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Condensed matter physics

The term condensed matter includes the solid and liquid states of matter.

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
Surface
Interface
Soft matter[?]
Liquid
- Superfluid
Granular matter

Phenomena

Superconductivity
Magnetism
Hall effect and Quantum Hall effect
Kondo effect[?]

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