Physics of condensed matter /

Physics of Condensed Matter is designed for a two-semester graduate course on condensed matter physics for students in physics and materials science. While the book offers fundamental ideas and topic areas of condensed matter physics, it also includes many recent topics of interest on which graduate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Misra, Prasanta K. (Prasanta Kumar)
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Burlington, MA : Academic Press, ©2012.
Subjects:	Condensed matter. Matière condensée. Condensed matter Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Basic properties of crystals
Phonons and lattice vibrations
Free electron model
Nearly free electron model
Band-structure calculations
Static and transport properties of solids
Electron-electron interaction
Dynamics of block electrons
Semiconductors
Electronics
Spintronics
Diamagnetism and paramagnetism
Magnetic ordering
Superconductivity
Heavy fermions
Metallic nanoclusters
Complex structures
Novel materials
Appendix A: Elements of group theory
Appendix B: Mossbauer effect
Appendix C: Introduction to renormalization group approach.