Solid state physics / Giuseppe Grosso, Department of Physics, University of Pisa and NEST, Institute of Nanoscience-CNR, Pisa, Italy, Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini, Department of Physics, University of Pavia, Italy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grosso, Giuseppe.

Pastori Parravicini, Giuseppe, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solid state physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 857 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Academic Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Solid State Physics is a textbook for students of physics, material science, chemistry, and engineering. It is the state-of-the-art presentation of the theoretical foundations and application of the quantum structure of matter and materials. This second edition provides timely coverage of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the last decade (especially in low-dimensional systems and quantum transport). It helps build readers' understanding of the newest advances in condensed matter physics with rigorous yet clear mathematics. Examples are an integral part of the text

Contents:

Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1 Electrons in One-Dimensional Periodic Potentials; 1.1 The Bloch Theorem for One-Dimensional Periodicity; 1.2 Energy Levels of a Single Quantum Well and of a Periodic Array of Quantum Wells; 1.3 Transfer Matrix, Resonant Tunneling, and Energy Bands; 1.3.1 Transmission and Reflection of Electrons from an Arbitrary Potential; 1.3.2 Double Barrier and Resonant Tunneling; 1.3.3 Electron Tunneling through a Periodic Potential; 1.4 The Tight-Binding Model; 1.4.1 Expansion in Localized Orbitals

1.4.2 Tridiagonal Matrices and Continued Fractions1.5 Plane Waves and Nearly Free-Electron Model; 1.5.1 Expansion in Plane Waves; 1.5.2 The Mathieu Potential and the Continued Fraction Solution; 1.6 Some Dynamical Aspects of Electrons in Band Theory; Appendix A. Solved Problems and Complements; Further Reading; 2 Geometrical Description of Crystals: Direct and Reciprocal Lattices; 2.1 Simple Lattices and Composite Lattices; 2.1.1 Periodicity and Bravais Lattices; 2.1.2 Simple and Composite Crystal Structures; 2.2 Geometrical Description of Some Crystal Structures

2.3 Wigner-Seitz Primitive Cells2.4 Reciprocal Lattices; 2.4.1 Definitions and Basic Properties; 2.4.2 Planes and Directions in Bravais Lattices; 2.5 Brillouin Zones; 2.6 Translational Symmetry and Quantum Mechanical Aspects; 2.6.1 Translational Symmetry and Bloch Wavefunctions; 2.6.2 The Parametric k ·p Hamiltonian; 2.6.3 Cyclic Boundary Conditions; 2.6.4 Special k Points for Averaging Over the Brillouin Zone; 2.7 Density-of-States and Critical Points; Further Reading; 3 The Sommerfeld Free-Electron Theory of Metals; 3.1 Quantum Theory of the Free-Electron Gas

3.2 Fermi-Dirac Distribution Function and Chemical Potential3.3 Electronic Specific Heat in Metals and Thermodynamic Functions; 3.4 Thermionic Emission from Metals; Appendix A. Outline of Statistical Physics and Thermodynamic Relations; A.1 Microcanonical Ensemble and Thermodynamic Quantities; A.2 Canonical Ensemble and Thermodynamic Quantities; A.3 Grand Canonical Ensemble and Thermodynamic Quantities; Appendix B. Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein Statistics for Independent Particles; B.1 Fermi-Dirac Statistics of Noninteracting Fermions; B.2 Bose-Einstein Statistics for Noninteracting Bosons

Appendix C. Modified Fermi-Dirac Statistics in a Model of Correlation EffectsFurther Reading; 4 The One-Electron Approximation and Beyond; 4.1 Introductory Remarks on the Many-Electron Problem; 4.2 The Hartree Equations; 4.3 Identical Particles and Determinantal Wavefunctions; 4.4 Matrix Elements Between Determinantal States; 4.5 The Hartree-Fock Equations; 4.5.1 Variational Approach and Hartree-Fock Equations; 4.5.2 Ground-State Energy, Ionization Energies, and Transition Energies; 4.5.3 Hartree-Fock Equations and Transition Energies in Closed-Shell Systems

4.5.4 Hartree-Fock-Slater and Hartree-Fock-Roothaan Approximations

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 19, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780123850317

0123850312

OCLC:

882287677