Overview
- Offers a compact overview of the core topics and concepts encountered in condensed matter theory
- Refreshes and reinforces the fundamental topics learned through more conventional solid state physics textbooks
- Serves as a quick look-up text for students and researchers alike
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Condensed matter theory revision
- Condensed matter theory graduate textbook
- Solid state physics graduate textbook
- Non-interacting electrons
- Electron-electron interaction
- Classical continuum phonon model
- Transport theory in condensed matter physics
- Optical properties of condensed matter systems
- Phase transitions in condensed matter
- Heisenberg model of ferromagnetism
- Low-dimensional semiconductor theory
- London phenomenological theory
- principles of solid state theory
- non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics
- adiabatic perturbation theory
About this book
The book starts from the one-electron theory of solid state physics, moving through electron-electron interaction and many-body approximation schemes, to lattice oscillations and their interactions with electrons. Subsequent chapters discuss transport theory and optical properties, phase transitions and some properties of low-dimensional semiconductors. This extensively expanded second edition includes new material on adiabatic perturbation theory, kinetic coefficients, the Nyquist theorem, Bose condensation, and the field-theoretical approach to non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics.
Throughout the text, mathematical proofs are often only sketched, and the final chapter of the book reviews some of the key concepts and formulae used in theoretical physics.
Aimed primarily at graduate and advanced undergraduate students taking courses on condensed matter theory, the book serves as a study guide to reinforce concepts learned through conventional solid state texts. Researchers and lecturers will also find it a useful resource as a concise set of notes on fundamental topics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Compendium of Solid State Theory
Authors: Ladislaus Bányai
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37359-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37358-0Published: 06 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37361-0Published: 06 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37359-7Published: 05 February 2020
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XII, 207
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Solid State Physics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Optical and Electronic Materials