Basic Aspects of the Quantum Theory of Solids
Subtitle: Order and Elementary Excitations
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780511788321
Subjects: Quantum theory; Science; Science: Physics; Physics; Solid-state physics
Description: Presents the main concepts and essential theoretical methods of the modern quantum theory of solids for graduate students and researchers.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword and general introduction; 1 Some basic notions of classical and quantum statistical physics; 2 General theory of phase transitions; 3 Bose and Fermi statistics; 4 Phonons in crystals; 5 General Bose systems; 6 Magnetism; 7 Electrons in metals; 8 Interacting electrons. Green functions and Feynman diagrams (methods of field theory in many-particle physics); 9 Electrons with Coulomb interaction; 10 Fermi-liquid theory and its generalizations; 11 Instabilities and phase transitions; 12 Strongly correlated electrons.; title: 13 Magnetic impurities in metals, Kondo effect, heavy fermions and mixed valenceBibliography; Index.