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Author(s): Neil W. Ashcroft, N. David Mermin
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Year: 1976
Language: English
Commentary: true pdf
Pages: 269
Preface
Contents
Important Tables
Suggestions for Using the Book
1 The Drude Theory of Metals
2 The Sommerfeld Theory of Metals
3 Failures of the Free Electron Model
4 Crystal Lattices
5 The Reciprocal Lattice
6 Determination of Crystal Structures by X-ray Diffraction
7 Classification of Bravais Lattices and Crystal Structures
8 Electron Levels in a Periodic Potential: General Properties
9 Electrons in a Weak Periodic Potential
10 The Tight-Binding Method
11 Other Methods for Calculating Band Structure
12 The Semiclassical Model of Electron Dynamics
13 The Semiclassical Theory of Conduction in Metals
14 Measuring the Fermi Surface
15 Band Structure of Selected Metals
16 Beyond the Relaxation-Time Approximation
17 Beyond the Independent Electron Approximation
18 Surface Effects
19 Classification of Solids
20 Cohesive Energy
21 Failures of the Static Lattice Model
22 Classical Theory of the Harmonic Crystal
23 Quantum Theory of the Harmonic Crystal
24 Measuring Phonon Dispersion Relations
25 Anharmonic Effects in Crystals
26 Phonons in Metals
27 Dielectric Properties of Insulators
28 Homogeneous Semiconductors
29 Inhomogeneous Semiconductors
30 Defects in Crystals
31 Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism
32 Electron Interactions and Magnetic Structure
33 Magnetic Ordering
34 Superconductivity
APPENDICES
A Summary of Important Numerical Relations in the Free Electron Theory of Metals
B The Chemical Poterntial
C The Sommerfeld Expansion
D Plane-Wave Expansions of Periodic Functions in More Than One Dimension
E The Velocity and Effective Mass of Bloch Electrons
F Some Identities Related to Fourier Analysis of Periodic Systems
G The Variational Principle for Schrödinger's Equation
H Hamiltonian Formulation of the Semiclassical Equations of Motion, and Lionville's Theorem
I Green's Theorem for Periodic Functions
J Conditions for the Absence of Interband Transitions in Uniform Electric or Magnetic Fields
K Optical Properties of Solids
L Quantum Theory of the Harmonic Crystal
M Conservation of Crystal Momentum
N Theory of the Scattering of Neutrons by a Crystal
O Anharmonic Terms and n-Phonon Processes
P Evaluation of the Landé g-Factor
INDEX
