Quasi-Particles

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Author(s): M. I. Kaganov, I. M. Lifshits
Publisher: Mir Publishers
Year: 1979

Language: English
City: Moscow

Front Cover
Back Cover
Foreword
Contents
What are components of..?
Photons
Bosons and fermions
Quantum statistics
Gas of fermions (Fermi-Dirac degeneration)
Gas of Bosons (Bose-Einstein degeneration)
Energy spectrum
Phonons
Phonons in helium
Magnons, etc.
Electrons. Energy bands
p-Space
Metals (conductors), insulators, semiconductors, and semimetals
Electrons and Holes
Landau Fermi Liquid
More on electrons and holes
Waves in electron gas
Excitons
Polarons, fluctuons, etc.
Half-way finish
Colliding quasiparticles
Additional complications
Digression on phase transitions
Quantum crystals. Quantum diffusion. Vacancions
Undamped macroscopic motions
Concluding remarks. Solid state physics and molecular biology