Description
Condensed Matter in a Nutshell is the most concise, accessible, and self-contained introduction to this exciting and cutting-edge area of modern physics. This premier textbook covers all the standard topics, including crystal structures, energy bands, phonons, optical properties, ferroelectricity, superconductivity, and magnetism. It includes in-depth discussions of transport theory, nanoscience, and semiconductors, and also features the latest experimental advances in this fast-developing field, such as high-temperature superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect, graphene, nanotubes, localization, Hubbard models, density functional theory, phonon focusing, and Kapitza resistance. Rich in detail and full of examples and problems, this textbook is the complete resource for a two-semester graduate course in condensed matter and material physics.
- Covers standard topics like crystal structures, energy bands, and phonons
- Features the latest advances like high-temperature superconductivity and more
- Full of instructive examples and challenging problems
- Solutions manual (available only to teachers)
Chapter
4.2.3: Van der Waals Interaction
4.3: Dielectric Screening
4.3.1: Dielectric Function
4.4.1: Microscopic Theory
5.2.3: Nonzero Temperatures
5.2.6: Thermionic Emission
5.3.1: Integer Quantum Hall Effect
5.3.2: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
5.3.3: Composite Fermions
5.3.4: deHaas-van Alphen Effect
5.4: Quantization of Orbits
5.4.1: Cyclotron Resonance
6: Electron-Electron Interactions
6.1.1: Tight-binding Models
6.1.2: Nearly Free Electrons
6.1.3: Hartree Energy: Wigner-Seitz
6.2.2: Equations of Motion
6.2.3: Plasma Oscillations
6.3: Density Functional Theory
6.3.1: Functional Derivatives
6.3.3: Kohn-Sham Equations
6.3.4: Exchange and Correlation
6.3.5: Application to Atoms
6.3.6: Time-dependent Local Density Approximation
6.4.1: Random Phase Approximation
6.4.2: Properties of P (q, w)
6.4.3: Hubbard-Singwi Dielectric Functions
6.5: Impurities in Metals
7.1.2: Example: Square Lattice
7.1.5: Dielectric Function
7.2.1: Simple Harmonic Oscillator
7.2.2: Phonons in One Dimension
7.3: Phonon Density of States
7.3.1: Phonon Heat Capacity
7.5.2: Isotropic Materials
7.5.3: Boundary Conditions
7.5.4: Defect Interactions
7.8.3: Periodic Solutions
8.2.1: Bose-Einstein Condensation
8.2.2: Bogoliubov Theory of Superfluidity
8.2.3: Off-diagonal Long-range Order
8.3.1: Jordan-Wigner Transformation
8.3.2: Holstein-Primakoff Transformation
9: Electron-Phonon Interactions
9.1: Semiconductors and Insulators
9.1.1: Deformation Potentials
9.1.2: Frohlich Interaction
9.1.3: Piezoelectric Interaction
9.1.4: Tight-binding Models
9.1.5: Electron Self-energies
9.2: Electron.Phonon Interaction in Metals
9.2.2: Phonon Frequencies
9.2.3: Electron.Phonon Mass Enhancement
9.4: Phonon-mediated Interactions
9.4.2: Dynamical Phonon Exchange
9.5: Electron.Phonon Effects at Defects
9.5.2: Jahn-Teller Effect
10: Extrinsic Semiconductors
10.1.1: Impurities and Defects in Silicon
10.1.3: Statistical Mechanics of Defects
10.1.5: Chemical Potential
10.1.6: Schottky Barriers
10.2.1: Mott Localization
10.2.2: Anderson Localization
10.2.3: Weak Localization
10.3: Variable Range Hopping
11.5.1: Transport Coefficients
11.5.3: Semiconductors and Insulators
11.6: Impurity Scattering
11.6.1: Screened Impurity Scattering
11.6.2: T-matrix Description
11.6.3: Mooij Correlation
11.7: Electron-Phonon Interaction
11.7.3: Saturation Velocity
11.7.5: Temperature Relaxation
11.8: Ballistic Transport
11.10: Electron Tunneling
11.10.1: Giaever Tunneling
11.10.3: Schottky Barrier Tunneling
11.10.4: Effective Mass Matching
11.11.1: Transport in Three Dimensions
11.11.2: Minimum Thermal Conductivity
11.11.3: Kapitza Resistance
11.11.4: Measuring Thermal Conductivity
11.12: Thermoelectric Devices
11.12.3: Power Generation
12.1.1: Optical Functions
12.1.2: Kramers-Kronig Analysis
12.3: Force-Force Correlations
12.3.1: Impurity Scattering
12.3.2: Interband Scattering
12.4.1: Interband Transitions in Insulators
12.5: X-Ray Edge Singularity
12.7: Conducting Polymers
12.8.1: Phonon Polaritons
12.8.2: Plasmon Polaritons
12.9.2: Surface Optical Phonons
12.9.3: Surface Charge Density
13.2.5: Antiferromagnetism
13.4: Theories of Magnetism
13.4.1: Ising and Heisenberg Models
13.4.2: Mean Field Theory
13.4.4: Critical Phenomena
13.5: Magnetic Susceptibility
13.6.2: Two and Three Dimensions
13.6.4: Order.Disorder Transitions
13.7: Topological Phase Transitions
13.8.2: Spin-flip Scattering
14.1: Discovery of Superconductivity
14.1.3: Three Eras of Superconductivity
14.2: Theories of Superconductivity
14.2.2: Ginzburg-Landau Theory
14.3.1: History of Theory
14.3.2: Effective Hamiltonian
14.3.5: d-Wave Energy Gaps
14.3.6: Density of States
14.3.7: Ultrasonic Attenuation
14.4.1: Normal-Superconductor
14.4.2: Superconductor-Superconductor
14.4.3: Josephson Tunneling
14.4.4: Andreev Tunneling
14.5: Cuprate Superconductors
14.5.2: Magnetic Oscillations
15.1.3: Excitons and Donors in Quantum Wells
15.1.4: Modulation Doping
15.1.5: Electron Mobility
15.2.2: Electron Energy Bands
15.2.5: Electron-Phonon Interaction
15.3.2: Electronic States
15.3.3: Phonons in Carbon Nanotubes
15.3.4: Electrical Resistivity
Condensed Matter in a Nutshell
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