Ph.D. students at the Institute of Molecular Physics are trained in condensed matter physics: physics of dielectrics, physics of magnetics, radiospectroscopy and molecular physics.

The Ph.D. Graduate Studies are headed by:
prof. dr hab. Jadwiga Tritt-Goc
e-mail: jtg@ifmpan.poznan.pl
phone.: 61 8695 226

The Ph.D. studies last four years.

Selected questions of the entrance exams in the past

• Studies of lattice dynamics in solids
• The specific heat of solids
• Fluorescence
• Superconductivity
• Electromagnetic waves, phonons and defects in crystals
• Point defects in solids
• Diamagnetism and paramagnetism
• Experimental verification of ab initio calculations
• The second law of dynamics
• X-ray diffraction
• Dislocations in crystals
• Dielectric dispersion
• Meissner effect
• Electrets
• Electron structure of solids
• Emission and absorption of radiation – Einstein diagram
• Electric field energy
• Spin waves
• The free electron gas in metals
• The Fermi gas of free electrons
• Magnetic relaxation and resonance phenomena
• Classification of magnetic materials
• The model of hydrogen atom
• Einstein and Debye theory of the specific heat
• The Heisenber model and the band model- differences and similarities
• The band model
• The hydrogen molecule
• Superfluidity of helium – bifluid model
• Reflection and refraction of light at the medium boundary
• Interaction of electromagnetic wave with a molecular system
• Van der Waals interaction
• Harmonic and anharmonic oscillator
• Classical and quantum oscillator
• The band theory of metals
• Magnetic susceptibility of paramgnetics, ferromagnetics and antiferromagnetics
• Dielectric polarization
• The phase transitions
• Electric conductivity
• Semiconductors
• Dielectric relaxation
• Magnetic resonances
• Resonance methods in material studies
• Kinds of the chemical binding in crystals
• The Boltzmann distribution
• The scattering of light
• The Bloch equations
• The Dirac equation
• The consequences of Maxwell equations
• The Raman spectroscopy
• The rotational spectra
• States of electrons in the hydrogen atom
• Ferroelectric domain structure
• Ferromagnetic domain structure
• The crystal symmetry
• Temperature dependence of the electric resistivity of metals
• The Einstein theory of radiation
• The theory of electric conductivity
• The kinds of resonance absorption
• Magnetic ordering in solids
• The kinds of ordering in solids
• The Bragg condition
• The spectrum of electromagnetic waves and information from the spectroscopy studies in various spectral ranges
• Scalar, vector and tensor quantities in physics –the second rank tensor in Cartesian coordinate system for medium of cubic symmetry
• Properties of crystals with a lack of center of symmetry
• Elastic properties of solids
• Thermal properties of solids
• The principle of laser operation and the properties of laser light
• The RLC circuit
• The main results of the M.Sci. Thesis
• The transport phenomena
• The relaxation phenomena I ferroelectrics
• The self-induction phenomenon