Overview

Physics of Condensed Matter is designed for a two-semester graduate course on condensed matter physics for students in physics and materials science. While the book offers fundamental ideas and topic areas of condensed matter physics, it also includes many recent topics of interest on which graduate students may choose to do further research. The text can also be used as a one-semester course for advanced undergraduate majors in physics, materials science, solid state chemistry, and electrical engineering, because it offers a breadth of topics applicable to these majors. The book begins with a clear, coherent picture of simple models of solids and properties and progresses to more advanced properties and topics later in the book. It offers a comprehensive account of the modern topics in condensed matter physics by including introductory accounts of the areas of research in which intense research is underway. The book assumes a working knowledge of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, electricity and magnetism and Green's function formalism (for the second-semester curriculum).

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Author:   Prasanta Misra
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.530kg
ISBN:  

9780123849540

ISBN 10:   0123849543
Pages:   688
Publication Date:   26 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Basic Properties of Crystals Chapter 2. Phonons and Lattice Vibrations Chapter 3. Free Electron Model Chapter 4. Nearly Free Electron Model Chapter 5. Band Structure Calculations Chapter 6. Static and Transport Properties of Solids Chapter 7. Electron-Electron Interaction Chapter 8. Dynamics of Bloch Electrons Chapter 9. Semiconductors Chapter 10. Electronics Chapter 11. Spintronics Chapter 12. Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism Chapter 13. Magnetic Ordering  Chapter 14. Superconductivity Chapter 15. Heavy Fermions Chapter 16. Metallic Nanoclusters Chapter 17. Complex Structures Chapter 18. Novel Materials Appendix A. Space Groups and Point Groups Appendix B. Mossbauer Effect Appendix C. Introduction to Renormalization Group Approach

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This book, with reasonable size, gives a general view of the physics of condensed matter with two main purposes in mind: firstly, to display a coherent and clear picture of classical simple models of crystalline solids, and secondly, to introduce modern topics in a form as simple as possible. It is written in eighteen chapters which are almost self-contained. Furthermore, all keywords of condensed matter are dealt with and expanded in a detailed manner: crystals, phonons, electrons, solids, semiconductors, electronics, spintronics, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, superconductivity, fermions, nanoclusters. This is a standard textbook designed for a one- or two-semester graduate course. --Zentralblatt MATH 1222-1

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