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The Physics of Solids

J. B. Ketterson

Abstract

This text covers the basic physics of the solid state starting at an elementary level and advancing, in stages. In addition to treating the fundamental elastic, electrical, thermal, magnetic, structural, electronic, transport, optical, mechanical, and compositional properties, the text also discusses topics like superfluidity and superconductivity, along with special topics such as strongly correlated systems, high temperature superconductors, the quantum Hall effects, and graphene. Particular emphasis is given to so-called first principles calculations utilizing modern density functional theo ... More

Keywords: solid state, superfluidity, superconductivity, high temperature superconductor, quantum Hall effect, graphene, modern density functional theory

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9780198742906
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2016 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198742906.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

J. B. Ketterson, author
Fayeweather Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Northwestern University, USA

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Part I Introductory Topics

1 Elastic Behavior of Solids

2 Electric Behavior of Insulators

3 Metals and the Drude–Lorentz Model

4 Elementary Theories of the Thermal Properties of Solids

5 Elementary Theories of Magnetism

6 The Non-interacting Fermi Gas

7 Elementary Theories of Crystal Bonding

Part II Crystal Structure and its Determination

8 Lattices and Crystal Structures

9 X-ray Diffraction

Part III Electronic Structure of Periodic Solids

10 Electrons in a Periodic Solid

11 The Nearly Free Electron, OPW, Pseudopotential, and Tight Binding Methods

12 The Parameterization of Band Structures: Applications to Semiconductors

13 Augmented Plane Wave and Green’s Function Methods*

Part IV Electron–Electron Interaction

14 The Self-consistent Dielectric Function

15 Hartree–Fock and Density Functional Theory

Part V Lattice Dynamics

16 Harmonic Lattice Dynamics: Classical and Quantum

17 Thermal Expansion, Phonon–Phonon Interactions, and Heat Transport

Part VI Electron Transport and Conduction Electron Dynamics

18 Motion of Electrons and Holes in External Electric and Magnetic Fields

19 Electronic Transport Properties Governed by Static Scattering Centers

20 Measuring the Electronic Energy Spectrum On and Off the Fermi Surface

21 The Interacting System of Metallic Electrons and Phonons

Part VII Semiconductors

22 Homogeneous Semiconductors

23 Inhomogeneous Semiconductors

Part VIII Electric and Magnetic Properties of Insulators

24 Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities

25 Piezoelectricity, Pyroelectricity, and Ferroelectricity

Part IX Magnetism

26 Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism

27 Dynamic Properties of Magnetic Materials

28 Magnetic Resonance28

Part X Optical Properties

29 Optical Responses

30 Polaritons, Excitons, and Plasmons

31 Behavior Under Intense Illumination: NLO, the e–h Liquid and Excitonic BEC

Part XI Superconductivity and Superfluidity

32 A Phenomenological Theory of Superconductivity: The London Equations

33 A Phenomenological Theory of Superconductivity: The Ginzburg–Landau Theory and the Josephson Effects

34 The Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity: Cooper Pairing and the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer Theory

35 Elementary Excitations and the Thermodynamic Properties of Superconductors

36 Superfluid4He

37 Landau’s Theory of a Fermi Liquid

38 Superfluid3He

Part XII Disordered Materials

39 Alloys

40 Defects and Diffusion in Crystalline Solids

41 Dislocations and Grain Boundaries

42 Quantum Theory of Electrical Transport in Dilute Alloys

43 Electrical Transport in Highly Disordered Media: Localization/Interaction Effects

44 Magnetic Impurities and their Interactions: The Anderson Model, the Kondo Effect, and the RKKY Interaction

Part XIII Special Topics

45 Strongly Correlated Systems

46 High Temperature Superconductors

47 Artificially Structured and Patterned Materials; Surfaces and Interfaces

48 The Quantum Hall Effects

49 Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, and Fullerenes

End Matter

Appendix A The Calculus of Variations

Appendix B The Symmetry of Many–Particle Wave Functions; The Occupation Number RepresentationB

Index