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Professor Ziman's classic textbook on the theory of solids was first pulished in 1964. This paperback edition is a reprint of the second edition, which was substantially revised and enlarged in 1972. The value and popularity of this textbook is well attested by reviewers' opinions and by the existence of several foreign language editions, including German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish and Russian. The book gives a clear exposition of the elements of the physics of perfect crystalline solids. In discussing the principles, the author aims to give students an appreciation of the conditions which are necessary for the appearance of the various phenomena. A self-contained mathematical account is given of the simplest model that will demonstrate each principle. A grounding in quantum mechanics and knowledge of elementary facts about solids is assumed. This is therefore a textbook for advanced undergraduates and is also appropriate for graduate courses.
' ... this is an admirable book. Indeed, it scarcely needs my commendation: it is already being widely used as a graduate text on both sides of the Atlantic.' Nature ' ... this book is admirably suited to anyone wishing to learn about the mathematical methods used in the physics of the solid state, who has adequate preparation ... and the book should serve well as a text for a graduate course.' American Journal of Physics 'An outstanding account of the theoretical principles of the physics of perfect crystalline solids.' Choice
| Periodic Structures | |
| Translational symmetry | p. 1 |
| Periodic functions | p. 6 |
| Properties of the reciprocal lattice | p. 9 |
| Bloch's theorem | p. 15 |
| Reduction to a Brillouin zone | p. 19 |
| Boundary conditions: counting states | p. 23 |
| Lattice Waves | |
| Lattice dynamics | p. 27 |
| Properties of lattice waves | p. 30 |
| Lattice sums | p. 37 |
| Lattice specific heat | p. 43 |
| Lattice spectrum | p. 47 |
| Diffraction by an ideal crystal | p. 51 |
| Diffraction by crystal with lattice vibrations | p. 55 |
| Phonons | p. 59 |
| The Debye--Waller factor | p. 62 |
| Anharmonicity and thermal expansion | p. 66 |
| Phonon--phonon interactio | p. 68 |
| Vibrations of imperfect lattices | p. 71 |
| Electron States | |
| Free electrons | p. 77 |
| Diffraction of valence electrons | p. 79 |
| The nearly-free-electron model | p. 83 |
| The tight-binding method | p. 91 |
| Cellular methods | p. 96 |
| Orthogonalized plane waves | p. 98 |
| Augmented plane waves | p. 103 |
| The Green function method | p. 106 |
| Model pseudo-potentials | p. 108 |
| Resonance bands | p. 113 |
| Crystal symmetry and spin-orbit interaction | p. 115 |
| Static Properties of Solids | |
| Types of solid: band picture | p. 119 |
| Types of solid: bond picture | p. 124 |
| Cohesion | p. 129 |
| Rigid band model and density of states | p. 133 |
| Fermi statistics of electrons | p. 136 |
| Statistics of carriers in a semiconductor | p. 139 |
| Electronic specific heat | p. 144 |
| Electron--Electron Interaction | |
| Perturbation formulation | p. 146 |
| Static screening | p. 149 |
| Screened impurities and neutral pseudo-atoms | p. 151 |
| The singularity in the screening: Kohn effect | p. 155 |
| The Friedel sum rule | p. 157 |
| Dielectric constant of a semiconductor | p. 161 |
| Plasma oscillations | p. 163 |
| Quasi-particles and cohesive energy | p. 166 |
| The Mott transition | p. 168 |
| Dynamics of Electrons | |
| General principles | p. 171 |
| Wannier functions | p. 172 |
| Equations of motion in the Wannier representation | p. 175 |
| The equivalent Hamiltonian: impurity levels | p. 177 |
| Quasi-classical dynamics | p. 181 |
| The mass tensor: electrons and holes | p. 182 |
| Excitons | p. 187 |
| Zener breakdown: tunnelling | p. 190 |
| Electrons at a surface | p. 196 |
| Scattering of electrons by impurities | p. 199 |
| Adiabatic principle | p. 200 |
| Renormalization of velocity of sound | p. 203 |
| The electron--phonon interaction | p. 205 |
| Deformation potentials | p. 209 |
| Transport Properties | |
| The Boltzmann equation | p. 211 |
| Electrical conductivity | p. 215 |
| Calculation of relaxation time | p. 219 |
| Impurity scattering | p. 220 |
| 'Ideal' resistance | p. 221 |
| Carrier mobility | p. 228 |
| General transport coefficients | p. 229 |
| Thermal conductivity | p. 231 |
| Thermo-electric effects | p. 235 |
| Lattice conduction | p. 239 |
| Phonon drag | p. 244 |
| The Hall effect | p. 246 |
| The two-band model magneto-resistance | p. 250 |
| Optical Properties | |
| Macroscopic theory | p. 255 |
| Dispersion and absorption | p. 260 |
| Optical modes in ionic crystals | p. 266 |
| Photon--phonon transitions | p. 269 |
| Interband transitions | p. 272 |
| Interaction with conduction electrons | p. 278 |
| The anomalous skin effect | p. 282 |
| Ultrasonic attenuation | p. 287 |
| The Fermi Surface | |
| High magnetic fields | p. 292 |
| Cyclotron resonance | p. 294 |
| High-field magneto-resistance | p. 301 |
| Open orbits | p. 306 |
| Magneto-acoustic oscillations | p. 309 |
| Quantization of orbits | p. 313 |
| The de Haas--van Alphen effect | p. 313 |
| Magneto-optical absorption | p. 324 |
| Magnetic breakdown | p. 326 |
| Magnetism | |
| Orbital magnetic susceptibility | p. 329 |
| Spin paramagnetism | p. 331 |
| The Curie--Weiss Law and ferromagnetism | p. 334 |
| Exchange interaction | p. 336 |
| Band ferromagnetism | p. 339 |
| Magnetic impurities | p. 341 |
| Antiferromagnetism | p. 348 |
| The Ising model | p. 353 |
| Combinatorial method | p. 356 |
| Exact solutions of the Ising problem | p. 362 |
| Spin waves | p. 366 |
| The antiferromagnetic ground state | p. 372 |
| Superconductivity | |
| The attraction between electrons | p. 379 |
| Cooper pairs | p. 382 |
| The superconducting ground state | p. 386 |
| Quasi-particles and the energy gap | p. 390 |
| Temperature dependence of the energy gap | p. 392 |
| Persistent currents | p. 394 |
| The London equation | p. 396 |
| The coherence length | p. 399 |
| Off-diagonal long range order | p. 402 |
| Superconducting junctions | p. 405 |
| Type II material | p. 410 |
| Bibliography | p. 415 |
| Index | p. 425 |
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ISBN: 9780521297332
ISBN-10: 0521297338
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
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Language:
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Number Of Pages: 452
Published: 29th November 1979
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.6 x 15.4
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