Table of Contents:
  • The idea of crystals
  • Three-dimensional lattices
  • Scattering and structures
  • Surfaces and interfaces
  • Beyond crystals
  • The free Fermi gas and single electron model
  • Non-interacting electrons in a periodic potential
  • Nearly free and tightly bound electrons
  • Electron-electron interactions
  • Realistic calculations in solid
  • Cohesion of solids
  • Elasticity
  • Phonons
  • Dislocations and cracks
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Dynamics of Bloch electrons
  • Transport phenomena and Fermi liquid theory
  • Microscopic theories of conduction
  • Electronics
  • Phenomenological theory
  • Optical properties of semiconductors
  • Optical properties of insulators
  • Optical properties of metals and inelastic scattering
  • Classical theories of magnetism and ordering
  • Magnetism of Ions and electrons
  • Quantum mechanics of interacting magnetic moments
  • Superconductivity.