Elementary Excitations in Solids

Name: Elementary Excitations in Solids
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ISBN: 9780738201153

ISBN-10: 0738201154

ISBN-13: 9780738201153

Edition: 1999 (Revised)

Authors: David Pines

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Solids are systems of interacting particles which, under suitable circumstances, behave like a collection of nearly independent elementary excitations. This book introduces the basic concepts and experimental data and includes problems.

Book details

List price: $73.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 3/31/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Introductory Survey



General considerations



Basic Hamiltonian



Elementary excitations



The measurement of the elementary excitation spectrum



Scope of the book



Phonons



Lattice dynamics in one dimension



Lattice dynamics in three dimensions



Lattice specific heat



Melting criterion



Neutron scattering in solids



Phonon-phonon interactions


Problems



Electrons and Plasmons



Sommerfeld noninteracting electron gas



Hartree and Hartree-Fock approximations



Correlation and correlation energy: an introductory survey



Dielectric response of an electron system



Properties of the electron gas in the RPA



Properties of the electron gas at metallic densities


Problems



Electrons, Plasmons, and Photons in Solids



Introductory considerations



Modification of [varepsilon] ([kappa][omega])



Experimental observation of plasmons in solids: characteristic energy-loss experiments



Optical properties of solids



Optical studies of solids


Problems



Electron-Phonon Interaction in Metals



Basic Hamiltonian



New features associated with the electron-phonon interaction



General physical picture



Phonon frequencies and effective electron-electron interaction



The approach to equilibrium of a coupled electron-phonon system



High-temperature conductivity



More detailed calculations of the relaxation time



Low-temperature conductivity



Quasi-particle properties


Problems


Appendixes



Second quantization



Linear response functions; Kramers-Kronig relations



The RPA calculation of the ground-state energy