Advanced Solid State Physics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521194907)

Providing an up-to-date and lucid presentation of phenomena across modern advanced-level solid state physics, this new edition builds on an elementary understanding to introduce students to the key research topics with the minimum of mathematics. It covers cutting-edge topics, including electron transport and magnetism in solids. It is the first book to explain topological insulators and strongly correlated electrons. Explaining solid state physics in a clear and detailed way, it also has over 50 exercises for students to test their knowledge. In addition to the extensive discussion of magnetic impurity problems, bosonization, quantum phase transitions, and disordered systems from the first edition, the new edition includes such topics as topological insulators, high-temperature superconductivity and Mott insulators, renormalization group for Fermi liquids, spontaneous symmetry breaking, zero and finite-temperature Green functions, and the Kubo formalism. Figures from the book and solutions to student exercises are available online at www.cambridge.org/solidstate.

Author: Philip Phillips
ISBN-10: 0521194903
ISBN-13: 9780521194907
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2012
Pages: 413
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.30w x 0.90d