Condensed Matter Physics - Rilegato

Marder, Michael P.

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ISBN 10: 0470617985 ISBN 13: 9780470617984

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2010

Riassunto

Now updated—the leading single-volume introduction tosolid state and soft condensed matter physics

This Second Edition of the unified treatment of condensedmatter physics keeps the best of the first, providing a basicfoundation in the subject while addressing many recent discoveries.Comprehensive and authoritative, it consolidates the criticaladvances of the past fifty years, bringing together an excitingcollection of new and classic topics, dozens of new figures, andnew experimental data.

This updated edition offers a thorough treatment of such basictopics as band theory, transport theory, and semiconductor physics,as well as more modern areas such as quasicrystals, dynamics ofphase separation, granular materials, quantum dots, Berry phases,the quantum Hall effect, and Luttinger liquids. In addition tocareful study of electron dynamics, electronics, andsuperconductivity, there is much material drawn from soft matterphysics, including liquid crystals, polymers, and fluiddynamics.

• Provides frequent comparison of theory and experiment, both whenthey agree and when problems are still unsolved

• Incorporates many new images from experiments

• Provides end-of-chapter problems including computationalexercises

• Includes more than fifty data tables and a detailed forty-pageindex

• Offers a solutions manual for instructors

Featuring 370 figures and more than 1,000 recent andhistorically significant references, this volume serves as avaluable resource for graduate and undergraduate students inphysics, physics professionals, engineers, applied mathematicians,materials scientists, and researchers in other fields who want tolearn about the quantum and atomic underpinnings of materialsscience from a modern point of view.

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Recensione:

"The text also gives more leisurely attention to the topics of primary interest to most students: electron and phonon bond structures." (Booknews, 1 February 2011)
 
"In this text intended for a one-year graduate course, Marder (physics, U. of Texas, Austin) comments in the preface that this second edition incorporates the many thousands of updates and corrections suggested by readers of the first edition published in 1999, and he even gives credit to several individuals who found the most errors. He also points out that "the entire discipline of condensed matter is roughly ten percent older than when the first edition was written, so adding some new topics seemed appropriate." These new topics - chosen because of increasing recognition of their importance - include graphene and nanotubes, Berry phases, Luttinger liquids, diffusion, dynamic light scattering, and spin torques. The text also gives more leisurely attention to the topics of primary interest to most students: electron and phonon bond structures." (Reference and Research Book News, February 2011)

L'autore:

Michael P. Marder, PhD, is the Associate Dean for Science and Mathematics Education and Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been involved in a wide variety of theoretical, numerical, and experimental investigations. He specializes in the mechanics of solids, particularly the fracture of brittle materials. Dr. Marder has carried out experimental studies of crack instabilities in plastics and rubber, and constructed analytical theories for how cracks move in crystals. Recently he has studied the way that membranes ripple due to changes in their geometry, and properties of frictional sliding at small length scales.

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• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470617985
• ISBN 13: 9780470617984
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 952