Stanford Physics Courses

Path Towards Exciton Condensation at High Temperatures

Explore the physics of exciton condensation in 2D semiconductors, focusing on high-temperature excitonic insulating states, Bose-Fermi mixtures, and equilibrium trion fluids in atomic double layers.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Present and Future of High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy

Explore the evolution of neutrino astronomy with IceCube's groundbreaking observations, including the first non-electromagnetic view of our galaxy, and discover how this emerging field is poised for future discoveries.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Theory of Strange Metals

Delve into the theory of strange metals in condensed matter physics, exploring phenomena that deviate from ordinary Fermi liquid behavior and their connection to quantum criticality and unconventional superconductivity.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Attractors in Black Holes and Cosmology

Delve into advanced theoretical physics concepts exploring attractors in black holes and cosmology, from supersymmetric theories to inflationary models and their implications for understanding the universe's origins.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scale Dependent Elasticity and Mutilated Nanosheets

Delve into advanced physics concepts of elastic membranes, exploring thermal fluctuations in graphene sheets, quantum mechanics of Dirac fermions, and the behavior of mutilated nanosheets.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier

Explore quantum entanglement's role in computing, cryptology, and physics with John Preskill. Gain insights into quantum information's weird properties and potential applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learning in a Quantum World

Explore methods for improving our understanding of quantum reality using classical and quantum machines, predicting properties of exotic many-particle systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Delving into the Unknown - The Higgs Boson at Future Colliders

Explore the Higgs boson's role in fundamental physics, its discovery, and future research prospects at next-generation particle colliders. Gain insights into precision measurements and their implications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Cosmology from the First Year DESI BAO Measurements

Explore DESI's first-year BAO measurements and their implications for cosmology, including constraints on the Hubble Constant, dark energy, curvature, and neutrino mass, addressing potential tensions with LCDM.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Emergent Phenomena in Crystalline Multilayer Graphene

Explore emergent quantum phenomena in crystalline multilayer graphene, including correlated insulators, quantum Hall effects, and superconductivity. Discover implications for topological quantum computation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Surprising Effectiveness of Topology in the Science of Quantum Materials

Explore topology's role in quantum condensed matter physics, from fractional quantum Hall effect to Weyl semimetals, and its impact on non-Abelian topological phases.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Measuring the Effect of Gravity on Antimatter

Explore groundbreaking experiments measuring gravity's effect on antimatter, including recent direct measurements and their implications for the weak equivalence principle.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Physical Systems That Can Learn by Themselves

Explore innovative approaches to scalable learning in physical systems, inspired by brain function but utilizing simpler physics-based methods for energy-efficient, autonomous machine learning tasks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Electron-Hole Fluid in van der Waals Heterostructures

Explore electron-hole fluid dynamics in van der Waals heterostructures, examining correlated phenomena, phase diagrams, and optical spectroscopy techniques for probing complex quantum interactions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Muon Colliders: The Next Generation of Particle Accelerators

Explore the potential of muon colliders as next-generation particle accelerators, examining challenges, possibilities, and recent progress in overcoming limitations of proton and electron colliders.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video