Quantum Solid-State Physics - Hardcover

Vonsovsky, Serghey V; Katsnelson, Mikhail I

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540191038 ISBN 13: 9783540191032

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1989

Synopsis

This book treats the major problems of the quantum physics of solids, ranging from fundamental concepts to topical issues. Rather than use a deductive method of exposition, the authors consider and analyze simple empirically established properties of solids and employ more complicated models only as the need arises. Detailed treatment is given of classical problems such as chemical bonding in crystals, the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with a periodic potential, the metal-insulator criterion, and the quantum theory of band electron motion in external fields. Consideration is also given to topical problems such as neutron scattering by the crystal lattice, plasma and Fermi liquid effects, the theory of disordered systems, and the polaron. The reader is expected to know only the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and statistical physics. Compared with the Russian edition (Nauka, Moscow 1983), the book has been substantially revised and enlarged, new sections have been written and recent results have been incorporated.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540191038
• ISBN 13: 9783540191032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 517