John B. Ketterson
This comprehensive text covers the basic physics of the solid state starting at an elementary level suitable for undergraduates but then advancing, in stages, to a graduate and advanced graduate level. In addition to treating the fundamental elastic, electrical, thermal, magnetic, structural,
electronic, transport, optical, mechanical and compositional properties, we also discuss topics like superfluidity and superconductivity along with special topics such as strongly correlated systems, high-temperature superconductors, the quantum Hall effects, and graphene. Particular emphasis is
given to so-called first principles calculations utilizing modern density functional theory which for many systems now allow accurate calculations of the electronic, magnetic, and thermal properties.
Part I: Introductory Topics
1. Elastic behavior of solids
2. Electric behavior of insulators
3. Metals and the Drude-Lorentz model
4. Elementary theories of thermal properties of solids
5. Elementary theories of magnetism; magnetic ions
6. The non-interacting Fermi
gas
7. Elementary theories of crystal bonding
Part II: Crystal Structure and its Determination
8. Lattices and crystal structures
9. X-ray diffraction; the reciprocal lattice
Part III: Electronic Structure of Periodic Solids
10. Electrons in a periodic
solid
11. The nearly-free electron, OPW, pseudopotential, and tight binding methods
12. The parameterization of band structures: applications to semiconductors
13. Augmented-plane wave and Green's function methods
Part IV: Electron-electron interaction
14. The
self-consistent dielectric function
15. Hartree-Fock and density functional theory
Part V: Lattice Dynamics
16. Harmonic lattice dynamics: classical and quantum
17. Thermal expansion, phonon-phonon interactions and heat transport
Part VI: Electron Transport and
Conduction Electron Dynamics
18. Motion of electroncs and holes in external electric and magnetic fields
19. Electronic transport properties governed by static scattering centers
20. Measuring the electronic energy spectrum on and off the Fermi surface
21. The interacting system
of metallic-electrons and phonons
Part VII: Semiconductors
22. Homogeneous semiconductors
23. Inhomogeneous semiconductors
Part VIII: Electric and Magnetic Properties of Insulators
24. Electric and magnetic susceptibilities
25. Piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity,
and ferroelectrcity
Part IX: Magnetism
26. Ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism
27. Dynamic properties of magnetic materials
28. Magnetic resonance
Part X: Optical Properties
29. Optical responses
30. Polaritons, excitons, and plasmons
31. Behavior
under intense illumination: NLO, the e-h liquid and excitonic BEC
Part XI: Superconductivity and Superfluidity
32. A phenomenological theory of superconductivity: the London equations
33. A phenomenological theory of superconductivity: the Ginzburg-Landau theory and the Josephson
effects
34. The microscopic theory of superconductivity: Cooper pairing and the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory
35. Elementary excitations and the thermodynamic properties of superconductors
36. Superfluid 4HE
37. Landau-Fermi liquid theory
38. Superfluid 3HE*
Part XII:
Disordered Materials
39. Alloys
40. Defects and diffusion in crystalline solids; color centers
41. Dislocations
42. The quantum theory of electrical transport in dilute alloys
43. Electrical transport in highly-disordered media: localization/interaction effects
44.
Magnetic impurities and their interactions: the Anderson model, the Kondo effect and the RKKY interaction
Part XIII: Special Topics
45. Strongly correlated systems
46. High temperature superconductors
47. Artificially structured/patterned materials; surfaces and
interfaces
48. The quantum Hall effects
49. Graphene, carbon nantubes and fullerenes
Appendix A: Some basic concepts in statistical physics
Appendix B: The calculus of variations
Appendix C: The symmetry of many-particle wave functions: the occupatuon number representation
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John B. Ketterson received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago, USA. He worked at the Argonne National laboratory from 1962 to 1974 at which time he joined the faculty of the Physics and Astronomy Department at Northwestern University, USA. Research interests have
included electronic properties of metals (particularly Fermi surface measurements); superfluid 4He, normal and superfluid 3He, and 3He - 4He solutions; superconductivity, magnetism and magnetic resonance, nonlinear optics, and excitons.
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