Daniel I. Khomskii (The Netherlands Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Basic Aspects of the Quantum Theory of Solids

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book covers the key aspects of the modern quantum theory of solids, including up-to-date ideas such as quantum fluctuations and strong electron correlations. It presents the main concepts and describes the essential theoretical methods required when working with these systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780521835213
• ISBN-10: 0521835216
• Artikelnr.: 29984852

Autorenporträt

D. I. Khomskii is a Professor in the II Physikalisches Institut, Cologne University. His main research interests are the theory of systems with strongly correlated electrons, metal-insulator transitions, magnetism, orbital ordering ('Kugel-Khomskii model') and superconductivity.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Some basic notions of the classical and quantum statistical physics; 2. General theory of phase transitions; 3. Bose- and Fermi-statistics; 4. Phonons in crystals; 5. General Bose-systems: Bose-condensation; 6. Magnetism; 7. Electrons in metals; 8. Interacting electrons: Green functions and Feynman diagrams (methods of the field theory in many-particle physics); 9. Electrons with Coulomb interaction; 10. Fermi-liquid theory and its possible generalizations; 11. Instabilities and phase transitions in electronic systems; 12. Strongly correlated electrons; 13. Magnetic impurities in metals, Kondo effect, heavy fermions and mixed valence; References; Index.