Solid State Physics

by Giuseppe Grosso, Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini, Giuseppe Grosso (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080481029
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	02/14/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	714
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Giuseppe Grosso graduated in Physics at the University of Pisa in 1972 and PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 1977, He is a retired full professor of Solid State Physics at the Physics Department of Pisa. The main research topics addressed concern electronic and optical properties of perfect 3D and nanostructured solids, Green's function, recursion and renormalization methods, continued fractions coherent transport, Keldysh formalism, conjugated polymers and molecular crystals, silicon and germanium based photonics.Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini graduated in Physics at the University of Milan in 1963, then moved to the Physics Institute of the University of Pisa where he taught Solid State Physics for more than two decades. From 1990 he moved as full professor to the Department of physics of the University of Pavia where he taught until 2011. Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini has made original contributions in many areas of theoretical Solid State Physics. Among them are the study of lamellar compounds, the theory of symmetries for the classification of electronic states, the electron-phonon interaction, nonlinear optical spectroscopy, many-body effects in excited states in atoms, molecules and solids, quantum transport using the non-equilibrium Keldysh function.
Giuseppe Grosso graduated in Physics at the University of Pisa in 1972 and PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 1977, He is a retired full professor of Solid State Physics at the Physics Department of Pisa. The main research topics addressed concern electronic and optical properties of perfect 3D and nanostructured solids, Green’s function, recursion and renormalization methods, continued fractions coherent transport, Keldysh formalism, conjugated polymers and molecular crystals, silicon and germanium based photonics.

Table of Contents

PrefaceChapter I Electrons in One-Dimensional Periodic Potentials 1 The Bloch Theorem for One-Dimensional Periodicity 2 Energy Levels in a Periodic Array of Quantum Wells 3 Electron Tunneling and Energy Bands 3.1 Transmission and Reflection of Electrons through an Arbitrary Potential 3.2 Electron Tunneling through a Periodic Potential 4 The Tight-Binding Approximation 4.1 Expansion in Localized Orbitals 4.2 Tridiagonal Matrices and Continued Fractions 5 Plane Waves and Nearly Free-Electron Approximation 5.1 Expansion in Plane Waves 5.2 The Mathieu Potential and the Continued Fraction Solution 6 Some Dynamical Aspects of Electrons in Band Theory Further ReadingChapter II Geometrical Description of Crystals: Direct and Reciprocal Lattices 1 Simple Lattices and Composite Lattices 1.1 Periodicity and Bravais Lattices 1.2 Simple and Composite Crystal Structures 2 Geometrical Description of Some Crystal Structures 3 Wigner-Seitz Primitive Cells 4 Reciprocal Lattices 4.1 Definitions and Basic Properties 4.2 Planes and Directions in Bravais Lattices 5 Brillouin Zones 6 Translational Symmetry and Quantum Mechanical Aspects 6.1 Translational Symmetry and Bloch Wavefunctions 6.2 the Parametric K•P Hamiltonian 6.3 Cyclic Boundary Conditions 6.4 Special K Points for Averaging over the Brillouin Zone 7 Density-of-States and Critical Points Further ReadingChapter III the Sommerfeld Free-Electron Theory of Metals 1 Quantum Theory of the Free-Electron Gas 2 Fermi-Dirac Distribution Function and Chemical Potential 3 Electronic Specific Heat in Metals and Thermodynamic Functions 4 Thermionic Emission from Metals Appendix A. Outline of Statistical Physics and Thermodynamic Relations Al. Microcanonical Ensemble and Thermodynamic Quantities A2. Canonical Ensemble and Thermodynamic Quantities A3. Grand Canonical Ensemble and Thermodynamic Quantities Appendix B. Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein Statistics for Independent Particles Appendix C. Modified Fermi-Dirac Statistics in a Model of Correlation Effects Further ReadingChapter IV The One-Electron Approximation and Beyond 1 Introductory Remarks on the Many-Electron Problem 2 The Hartree Equations 3 Identical Particles and Determinantal Wavefunctions 4 Matrix Elements Between Determinantal States 5 the Hartree-Fock Equations 5.1 Variational Approach and Hartree-Fock Equations 5.2 Ground-State Energy, Ionization Energies and Transition Energies 5.3 Hartree-Fock Equations and Transition Energies in Closed-Shell Systems 5.4 Hartree-Fock-Slater and Hartree-Fock-Roothaan Approximations 6 Overview of Approaches Beyond the One-Electron Approximation 7 Electronic Properties and Phase Diagram of the Homogeneous Electron Gas 8 The Density Functional Theory and the Kohn-Sham Equations Appendix A. Bielectronic Integrals among Spin-Orbitals Appendix B. Outline of Second Quantization Formalism for Identical Fermions Appendix C. An Integral on the Fermi Sphere Further ReadingChapter V Band Theory of Crystals 1 Basic Assumptions of the Band Theory 2 The Tight-Binding Method (LCAO Method) 2.1 Description of the Method for Simple Lattices 2.2 Description of the Tight-Binding Method for Composite Lattices 2.3 Illustrative Appucations of the Tight-Binding Scheme 3 The Orthogonalized Plane Wave (OPW) Method 4 the Pseudopotential Method 5 The Cellular Method 6 The Augmented Plane Wave (APW) Method 6.1 Description of the Method 6.2 Expression and Evaluation of the Matrix Elements of the APW Method 7 the Green'S Function Method (KKR Method) 7.1 Scattering Integral Equation for a Generic Potential 7.

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Solid State Physics explains the newest advances in the area of condensed matter physics with rigorous, but lucid mathematics in a simple, tutorial, and self-contained style.

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The approach of this graduate textbook applies fundamental principles to current research advances. Grosso (University of Pisa) and Parravicini (University of Pavia) begin by focusing on the electronic structure of crystals<-->band theory, excitons and plasmons<-->and lattice dynamics. Descriptions of methods used to investigate crystalline properties, such as particle scattering, optical spectroscopy and transport measurements, then follow. The final chapters are devoted to the study of electronic magnetism, cooperative magnetic effects and superconductivity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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