By Solyom J.

This booklet is the 1st of a three-volume sequence written through an analogous writer that goals to carry a accomplished and self-contained account of the substantial box of solid-state physics. It is going some distance past so much vintage texts within the presentation of the homes of solids and experimentally saw phenomena, besides the fundamental ideas and theoretical tools used to appreciate them and the fundamental beneficial properties of varied experimental techniques.

the 1st quantity offers with the atomic and magnetic constitution and the dynamics of solids, the second one with these electrical homes that may be understood by way of the one-particle approximation, and the 3rd with the results because of interactions and correlations between electrons.

This quantity covers 4 significant themes. After a short background of solid-state physics, the introductory half offers the class of condensed levels, describes the fundamental beneficial properties of atoms as development blocks of solids, and analyzes how atoms bind jointly to shape solids.

The moment half offers with structural facets. The symmetries of crystalline solids and their results are lined in detail.

Deviations from crystalline order both because of defects or in kind of quasicrystalline or noncrystalline constructions also are mentioned. The 3rd half is dedicated to the theoretical description and experimental remark of lattice vibrations. eventually, magnetism as a result of localized magnetic moments is handled either phenomenologically and quantum mechanically.

The textual content offers plentiful fabric for upper-level undergraduate and graduate classes. The publication additionally serves as a necessary reference for researchers within the box of condensed subject physics.

By L. Ley, M. Cardona

With contributions via a variety of specialists

By Walter A. Harrison

By David L. Sidebottom

This undergraduate textbook merges conventional sturdy kingdom physics with modern condensed subject physics, delivering an updated creation to the most important strategies that shape the principles of condensed fabrics. the most foundational rules are emphasised, delivering scholars with the data newbies within the box may still comprehend. The e-book is based in 4 elements and permits scholars to understand how the thoughts during this huge region construct upon one another to supply a cohesive complete as they paintings throughout the chapters. Illustrations paintings heavily with the textual content to show ideas and ideas visually, bettering pupil knowing of inauspicious fabric, and end-of-chapter routines various in hassle permit scholars to place into perform the speculation they've got lined in each one bankruptcy and strengthen new thoughts

By Daniel ben-Avraham, Shlomo Havlin

Fractal buildings are discovered in every single place in nature, and subsequently anomalous diffusion has a ways attaining implications in a number of phenomena. This publication describes diffusion and shipping in disordered media similar to fractals, porous rocks and random resistor networks. half I comprises fabric of common curiosity to statistical physics: fractals, percolation conception, commonplace random walks and diffusion, non-stop time random walks and Levy walks, and flights. half II covers anomalous diffusion in fractals and disordered media, whereas half III serves as an advent to the kinetics of diffusion-limited reactions. half IV discusses the matter of diffusion-limited coalescence in a single size. This ebook can be of specific curiosity to researchers requiring a transparent advent to the sector. it's going to even be a useful resource to graduate scholars learning in parts of physics, chemistry, and engineering.

By Laszlo Solymar, Donald Walsh, Richard R. A. Syms

With an off-the-cuff and hugely obtainable writing sort, an easy remedy of arithmetic, and transparent consultant to purposes, this ebook is a vintage textual content in electric and digital engineering. scholars will locate it either readable and finished. the elemental rules proper to the certainty of homes of fabrics are emphasised; furthermore, subject matters are chosen so that it will clarify the operation of units having functions (or attainable destiny functions) in engineering. the maths, saved intentionally to a minimal, is easily in the snatch of a second-year pupil. this is often accomplished by means of identifying the best version which can exhibit the fundamental homes of a phenomenon, after which studying the variation among the suitable and the particular habit. the full textual content is designed as an undergraduate path. despite the fact that so much person sections are self-contained and will be used as historical past examining in graduate classes, and for folks who are looking to discover advances in microelectronics, lasers, nanotechnology and a number of other subject matters that impinge on glossy existence.

By Wolfgang Nolting

Der beliebte Grundkurs Theoretische Physik deckt in sieben Bänden alle für den Bachelor-/Masterstudiengang maßgeblichen Gebiete ab. Jeder Band vermittelt intestine durchdacht das im jeweiligen Semester nötige theoretische-physikalische Rüstzeug. Zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben mit ausführlichen Lösungen dienen der Vertiefung des Stoffes.

Die vorliegende neue Auflage des siebten Bandes zur Viel-Teilchen-Theorie wurde grundlegend überarbeitet und um einen neuen Abschnitt "Hochenergieentwicklung Greenscher Funktionen" sowie ein neues Kapitel "Spektroskopien, Spektraldichte" ergänzt. Die durchgehend zweifarbige Darstellung ermöglicht einen sehr übersichtlichen und schnellen Zugriff auf den Lehrstoff.

By Sudzuki

By J. M. Ziman

Professor Ziman's vintage textbook at the conception of solids used to be first pulished in 1964. This paperback variation is a reprint of the second one version, which used to be considerably revised and enlarged in 1972. the price and recognition of this textbook is easily attested by way of reviewers' reviews and through the lifestyles of numerous overseas language versions, together with German, Italian, Spanish, jap, Polish and Russian. The booklet supplies a transparent exposition of the weather of the physics of excellent crystalline solids. In discussing the foundations, the writer goals to offer scholars an appreciation of the stipulations that are priceless for the looks of a few of the phenomena. A self-contained mathematical account is given of the best version that might display every one precept. A grounding in quantum mechanics and information of ordinary proof approximately solids is believed. this is often consequently a textbook for complex undergraduates and is additionally acceptable for graduate classes.

By Jose Manuel Recio, Jose Manuel Menendez, Alberto Otero de la Roza

An creation to High-Pressure technological know-how and know-how will give you an knowing of the connections among different components concerned with the multidisciplinary technological know-how of excessive strain. The e-book displays the deep interdisciplinary nature of the sphere and its shut courting with commercial purposes. Thirty-nine experts in high-pressure examine consultant you thru the method of studying why strain is taken into account a robust medical and technological software, how strain will be brought into the laboratory, and which difficulties should be solved utilizing this thermodynamic variable. The e-book offers uncomplicated thermodynamic equations and state of the art computational instruments. It exhibits what percentage experimental ideas, while mixed with strain, are robust resources of knowledge for figuring out ordinary phenomena and display transparent paths for the layout of novel fabrics. The publication additionally addresses the responses of microorganisms, Earth materials, and icy planets to pressure.  Read more...