Local Geometry of the Fermi Surface
Subtitle: And High-Frequency Phenomena in Metals
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780387987637
Subjects: Chemistry of metals & their compounds; Condensed matter physics (liquids & solids); Surface Physics; Science; Science/Mathematics; Engineering (General); Engineering - General; Physics; Solid State Physics; Science / Mathematical Physics; Fermi liquid theory; Fermi surfaces
First sentence: Any metal can be considered as a Fermi sea of electrons which moves within a crystalline lattice.
Description: "This book discusses the local geometry of the Fermi surface and its effects on high-frequency phenomena in metals and metallic conductors.".

"After an introductory chapter reviewing the electron-liquid theory of metals, the discussion turns to techniques useful in analyzing properties of real Fermi surfaces, which are rarely spherical.

In subsequent chapters these techniques are applied to concrete problems such as the anomalous skin effect, cyclotron resonance, attenuation of ultrasonic fields, dopplerons, the effects of zero-curvature portions of the Fermi surface, and the behavior of the Fermi surface in low-dimensional structures."--BOOK JACKET.