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| About Condensed Matter Physics | |
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| What Is Condensed Matter Physics | |
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| Why Do We Study Condensed Matter Physics? | |
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| Why Solid State Physics? | |
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| Physics of Solids without Considering Microscopic Structure: The Early Days of Solid State | |
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| Specific Heat of Solids: Boltzmarrn, Einstein, and Debye | |
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| Einstein's Calculation | |
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| Debye's Calculation | |
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| Periodic (Born-von Karman) Boundary Conditions | |
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| Debye's Calculation Following Planck | |
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| Debye's "Interpolation" | |
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| Some Shortcomings of the Debye Theory | |
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| Appendix to this Chapter: �(4) | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Electrons in Metals: Drude Theory | |
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| Electrons in Fields | |
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| Electrons in an Electric Field | |
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| Electrons in Electric and Magnetic Fields | |
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| Thermal Transport | |
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| Exercises | |
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| More Electrons in Metals: Sommerfeld (Free Electron) Theory | |
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| Basic Fermi-Dirac Statistics | |
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| Electronic Heat Capacity | |
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| Magnetic Spin Susceptibility (Pauli Paramagnetism) | |
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| Why Drude Theory Works So WeU | |
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| Shortcomings of the Free Electron Model | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Structure of Materials | |
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| The Periodic Table | |
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| Chemistry, Atoms, and the Schroedinger Equation | |
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| Structure of the Periodic Table | |
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| Periodic Trends | |
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| Effective Nuclear Charge | |
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| Exercises | |
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| What Holds Solids Together: Chemical Bonding | |
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| Ionic Bonds | |
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| Covalent Bond | |
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| Particle in a Box Picture | |
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| Molecular Orbital or Tight Binding Theory | |
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| Van der Waals, Fluctuating Dipole Forces, or Molecular Bonding | |
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| Metallic Bonding | |
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| Hydrogen Bonds | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Types of Matter | |
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| Toy Models of Solids in One Dimension | |
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| One-Dimensional Model of Compressibility, Sound, and Thermal Expansion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Vibrations of a One-Dimensional Monatomic Chain | |
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| First Exposure to the Reciprocal Lattice | |
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| Properties of the Dispersion of the One-Dimensional Chain | |
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| Quantum Modes: Phonons | |
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| Crystal Momentum | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Vibrations of a One-Dimensional Diatomic Chain | |
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| Diatomic Crystal Structure: Some Useful Definitions | |
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| Normal Modes of the Diatomic Solid | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Tight Binding Chain (Interlude and Preview) | |
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| Tight Binding Model in One Dimension | |
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| Solution of the Tight Binding Chain | |
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| Introduction to Electrons Filling Bands | |
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| Multiple Bands | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Geometry of Solids | |
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| Crystal Structure | |
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| Lattices and Unit Cells | |
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| Lattices in Three Dimensions | |
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| The Body-Centered Cubic (bcc) Lattice | |
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| The Face-Centered Cubic (fcc) Lattice | |
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| Sphere Packing | |
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| Other Lattices in Three Dimensions | |
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| Some Real Crystals | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Reciprocal Lattice, Brillouin Zone, Waves in Crystals | |
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| The Reciprocal1 Lattice in Three Dimensions | |
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| Review of One Dimension | |
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| Reciprocal Lattice Definition | |
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| The Reciprocal Lattice as a Fourier Transform | |
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| Reciprocal Lattice Points as Families of Lattice Planes | |
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| Lattice Planes and Miller Indices | |
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| Brillouin Zones | |
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| Review of One-Dimensional Dispersions and Brillouin Zones | |
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| General Brillouin Zone Construction | |
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| Electronic and Vibrational Waves in Crystals in Three Dimensions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction | |
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| Wave Scattering by Crystals | |
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| The Laue and Bragg Conditions | |
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| Fermi's Golden Rule Approach | |
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| Diffraction Approach | |
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| Equivalence of Laue and Bragg conditions | |
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| Scattering Amplitudes | |
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| Simple Example | |
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| Systematic Absences and More Examples | |
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| Geometric Interpretation of Selection Rules | |
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| Methods of Scattering Experiments | |
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| Advanced Methods | |
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| Powder Diffraction | |
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| Still More About Scattering | |
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| Scattering in Liquids and Amorphous Solids | |
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| Variant: Inelastic Scattering | |
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| Experimental Apparatus | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Electrons in Solids | |
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| Electrons in a Periodic Potential | |
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| Nearly Free Electron Model | |
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| Degenerate Perturbation Theory | |
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| Bloch's Theorem | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Insulator, Semiconductor, or Metal | |
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| Energy Bands in One Dimension | |
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| Energy Bands in Two and Three Dimensions | |
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| Tight Binding | |
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| Failures of the Band-Structure Picture of Metals and Insulators | |
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| Band Structure and Optical Properties | |
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| Optical Properties of Insulators and Semiconductors | |
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| Direct and Indirect Transitions | |
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| Optical Properties of Metals | |
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| Optical Effects of Impurities | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Semiconductor Physics | |
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| Electrons and Holes | |
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| Drude Transport: Redux | |
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| Adding Electrons or Holes with Impurities: Doping | |
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| Impurity States | |
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| Statistical Mechanics of Semiconductors | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Semiconductor Devices | |
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| Band Structure Engineering | |
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| Designing Band Gaps | |
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| Non-Homogeneous Band Gaps | |
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| p-n Junction | |
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| The Transistor | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Magnetism and Mean Field Theories | |
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| Magnetic Properties of Atoms: Para- and Dia-Magnetism | |
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| Basic Definitions of Types of Magnetism | |
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| Atomic Physics: Hund's Rules | |
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| Why Moments Align | |
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| Coupling of Electrons in Atoms to an External Field | |
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| Free Spin (Curie or Langevin) Paramagnetism | |
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| Larmor Diamagnetism | |
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| Atoms in Solids | |
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| Pauli Paramagnetism in Metals | |
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| Diamagnetism in Solids | |
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| Curie Paramagnetism in Solids | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Spontaneous Magnetic Order: Ferro-, Antiferro-, and Ferri-Magnetism | |
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| (Spontaneous) Magnetic Order | |
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| Ferromagnets | |
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| Antiferrorriagnets | |
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| Ferrimagnets | |
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| Breaking Symmetry | |
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| Ising Model | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Domains and Hysteresis | |
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| Macroscopic Effects in Ferromagnets: Domains | |
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| Domain Wall Structure and the Bloch/N�el Wall | |
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| Hysteresis in Ferromagnets | |
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| Disorder Pinning | |
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| Single-Domain Crystallites | |
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| Domain Pinning and Hysteresis | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Mean Field Theory | |
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| Mean Field Equations for the Ferromagnetic Ising Model | |
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| Solution of Self-Consistency Equation | |
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| Paramagnetic Susceptibility | |
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| Further Thoughts | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Magnetism from Interactions: The Hubbard Model | |
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| Itinerant Ferromagnetism | |
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| Hubbard Ferromagnetism Mean Field Theory | |
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| Stoner Criterion | |
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| Mott Antiferromagnetism | |
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| Appendix: Hubbard Model for the Hydrogen Molecule | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Sample Exam and Solutions | |
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| List of Other Good Books | |
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| Indices | |
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| Index of People | |
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| Index of Topics | |