Jenö Sólyom

Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids

Volume 3 - Normal, Broken-Symmetry, and Correlated Systems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the third of a three-volume series written by the same author. It aims to deliver a comprehensive and self-contained account of the fundamentals of the physics of solids. In the presentation of the properties and experimentally observed phenomena together with the basic concepts and theoretical methods, it goes far beyond most classic texts. The essential features of various experimental techniques are also explained.

This volume is devoted mostly to the discussion of the effects of electron-electron interaction beyond the one-electron approximation. The density-functional theory is introduced to account for correlation effects. The response to external perturbations is discussed in the framework of linear response theory. Landau's Fermi-liquid theory is followed by the theory of Luttinger liquids. The subsequent chapters are devoted to electronic phases with broken symmetry: to itinerant magnetism, to spin- and charge-density waves and their realizations in quasi-one-dimensional materials, as well as to the microscopic theory of superconductivity. An overview is given of the physics of strongly correlated systems. The last chapter covers selected problems in the physics of disordered systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-42320-8
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 776
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1169g
• ISBN-13: 9783642423208
• ISBN-10: 3642423205
• Artikelnr.: 41906428

Inhaltsangabe

Electrons-Electron Interaction and Correlations.- Electronic Response to External Perturbations.- Cohesive Energy of the Electron System.- Excitations in the Interacting Electron Gas.- Fermion Liquids.- Electronic Phases with Broken Symmetry.- Microscopic Theory of superconductivity.- Strongly Correlated Systems.- Disordered Systems.- Response to External Perturbations.- Green Functions of the Many-Body Problem.- Field Theory of Luttinger Liquids.- Renormalization and Scaling in Solid-State Physics.

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Free-electron model of metals. - Electrons in the periodic potential of a crystal. - Simple models of band structure. - Methods for calculating and measuring the band structure. - Electronic structure of semiconductors. - Semiclassical dynamics of electrons. - Electrons in strong magnetic fields. - Electrons in thermally vibrating lattices. - Transport phenomena. - Optical properties of solids. - Superconductivity. - Transport of carriers in semiconductor devices. - Quantum mechanical perturbation theory. - Second quantization. - Canonical Transformation.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:
"The second volume is centered on the highly mobile portion of a solid, the electrons. ... senior students in physics will be able to tutor themselves through reading this volume. The text will also be very useful to a non-specialist in the field of electronic properties or to a research scientist who wants to get a basic introduction to the field. ... second volume of this series lives up to our expectations and will be very useful to students, teachers, and scientists in solid-state physics." (Fernande Grandjean and Gary J. Long, Belgian Physical Society Magazine, Issue 3, 2010)