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

Preface

I - Electrons in one-dimensional periodic potentials

II - Geometrical description of crystals: Direct and reciprocal lattices

III - The Sommerfeld free-electron theory of metals

IV - The one-electron approximation and beyond

V - Band theory of crystals

VI - Electronic properties of selected crystals

VII - Excitons, plasmons and dielectric screening in crystals

VIII - Interacting electronic-nuclear systems and the adiabatic principle

IX - Lattice dynamics of crystals

X - Scattering of particles by crystals

XI - Optical and transport properties in metals

XII - Optical properties of semiconductors and insulators

XIII - Transport in intrinsic and homogeneously doped semiconductors

XIV - Transport in inhomogeneous semiconductors

XV - Electron gas in magnetic fields

XVI - Magnetic properties of localized systems and Kondo impurities

XVII - Magnetic ordering in crystals

XVIII - Superconductivity

Subject index

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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.

Editorial Reviews

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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"... A very nice book ... I would personally buy it" —Professor Henry Ehrenreich, Harvard University

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