Solid State Physics

Giuseppe Grosso, Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780123850317
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Condensed Matter

Solid State Physics is a textbook for students of physics, material science, chemistry, and engineering. It is the state-of-the-art presentation of the theoretical foundations and application of the quantum structure of matter and materials. This second edition provides timely coverage of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the last decade (especially in low-dimensional systems and quantum transport). It helps build readers' understanding of the newest advances in condensed matter physics with rigorous yet clear mathematics. Examples are an integral part of the text, carefully designed to apply the fundamental principles illustrated in the text to currently active topics of research. Basic concepts and recent advances in the field are explained in tutorial style and organized in an intuitive manner. The book is a basic reference work for students, researchers, and lecturers in any area of solid-state physics. - Features additional material on nanostructures, giving students and lecturers the most significant features of low-dimensional systems, with focus on carbon allotropes - Offers detailed explanation of dissipative and nondissipative transport, and explains the essential aspects in a field, which is commonly overlooked in textbooks - Additional material in the classical and quantum Hall effect offers further aspects on magnetotransport, with particular emphasis on the current profiles - Gives a broad overview of the band structure of solids, as well as presenting the foundations of the electronic band structure. Also features reported with new and revised material, which leads to the latest research

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface to the second edition
• Preface to the first edition
• Chapter 1. Electrons in One-Dimensional Periodic Potentials
• Chapter 2. Geometrical Description of Crystals: Direct and Reciprocal Lattices
• Chapter 3. The Sommerfeld Free-Electron Theory of Metals
• Chapter 4. The One-Electron Approximation and Beyond
• Chapter 5. Band Theory of Crystals
• Chapter 6. Electronic Properties of Selected Crystals
• Chapter 7. Excitons, Plasmons, and Dielectric Screening in Crystals
• Chapter 8. Interacting Electronic-Nuclear Systems and the Adiabatic Principle
• Chapter 9. Lattice Dynamics of Crystals
• Chapter 10. Scattering of Particles by Crystals
• Chapter 11. Optical and Transport Properties of Metals
• Chapter 12. Optical Properties of Semiconductors and Insulators
• Chapter 13. Transport in Intrinsic and Homogeneously Doped Semiconductors
• Chapter 14. Transport in Inhomogeneous Semiconductors
• Chapter 15. Electron Gas in Magnetic Fields
• Chapter 16. Magnetic Properties of Localized Systems and Kondo Impurities
• Chapter 17. Magnetic Ordering in Crystals
• Chapter 18. Superconductivity
• Index