Quantum Theory of Solids

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Author(s): I. M. Lifshits
Series: Advances in Science and Technology in the USSR: Physics
Publisher: Mir Publishers
Year: 1983

Language: English
City: Moscow

Front Cover
Title Page
FOREWORD
CONTENTS
1. Defects and Surface Phenomenain Quantum Crystals
1.1. INTRODUCTION
1.2 QUANTUM EFFECTS IN CRYSTALS
1.3 IMPURITY QUASIPARTICLES: IMPURITONS
1.4 VACANCIES
1.5 SURFACE PHENOMENA
1.6 FACETING TRANSITIONS IN CRYSTALS
2. Electronic Phase Transitionsand the Problem of Mixed Valence
2.1 INTRODUCTION
2.2 LOCALIZATION OF ELECTRONS AND INSULATOR-METAL TRANSITIONS (MOTT-HUBBARD TRANSITIONS
2.3 ELECTRONIC PHASE TRANSITIONS IN RARE-EARTH COMPOUNDS
2.4 VALENCE TRANSITIONS IN THE FALICOV- KIMBALL MODEL
2.5 THE ELECTRON-LATTICE INTERACTION AND ITS ROLE IN TRANSITIONS
2.6 MIXED-VALENCE STATES: THE BASIC PROBLEMS
2.7 CONCLUSION
3. Coherent Effectsin Disordered Conductors
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 QUANTUM CORRECTIONS TO CONDUCTIVITY OF NONINTERACTING ELECTRONS
3.3 QUANTUM EFFECTS IN HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD
3.4 ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTION IN DISORDERED METALLIC SYSTEMS
3.5 TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF CONDUCTIVITY: EXPERIMENT
3.6 HALL EFFECT
3.7 ANOMALOUS MAGNETORESISTANCE
3.8 ELECTRON LOCALIZATION IN RANDOM POTENTIAL
3.9 CONCLUSION
3.A APPENDICES
4. An Exact Solution of the Kondo Problem
4.1 INTRODUCTION
4.2 THE BASIC MODELS
4.3 BETHE’S METHOD
4.4 THE THERMODYNAMICS OF THE S-D EXCHANGE MODEL
4.5 SOLUTION FOR THE n-FOLD DEGENERATE EXCHANGE MODEL
4.6 CONCLUSION
Author Index
Subject Index