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| Series Preface | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction and review of quantum mechanics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Wave--particle duality | |
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| Wave quantisation | |
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| Heisenberg uncertainty principle | |
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| Schrodinger's equation | |
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| Expectation values and the momentum operator | |
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| Some properties of wavefunctions | |
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| The variational principle | |
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| The variational method in an infinite square well | |
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| The finite square well | |
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| Bonding in molecules and solids | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Double square well potential | |
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| The hydrogen molecule, H[subscript 2] | |
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| The diatomic LiH molecule | |
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| Tetrahedral bonding in Si crystals | |
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| Bonding in gallium arsenide | |
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| Trends in semiconductors | |
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| Band structure of solids | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Bloch's theorem and band structure for a periodic solid | |
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| The Kronig--Penney model | |
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| The tight-binding method | |
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| The nearly free electron method | |
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| Band structure of tetrahedral semiconductors | |
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| The use of 'pseudo' potentials | |
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| Band structure and defects in bulk semiconductors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| k - p theory for semiconductors | |
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| Electron and hole effective masses | |
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| Trends in semiconductors | |
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| Impurities in semiconductors | |
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| Amorphous semiconductors | |
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| Physics and applications of low-dimensional semiconductor structures | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Confined states in quantum wells, wires, and dots | |
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| Density of states in quantum wells, wires, and dots | |
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| Modulation doping and heterojunctions | |
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| Quantum Hall effect | |
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| Semiconductor laser action | |
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| Strained-layer lasers | |
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| Tunnelling structures and devices | |
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| Diamagnetism and paramagnetism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Magnetisation | |
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| Magnetic moment of the electron | |
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| Diamagnetism in atoms and solids | |
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| Langevin (classical) theory of paramagnetism | |
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| Magnetic moments in isolated atoms and ions: Hund's rules | |
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| Brillouin (quantum mechanical) theory of paramagnetism | |
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| Paramagnetism in metals | |
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| Floating frogs | |
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| Ferromagnetism and magnetic order | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The exchange interaction | |
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| Ferromagnetism and the Curie temperature | |
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| Spontaneous magnetisation | |
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| Spontaneous magnetisation and susceptibility of an antiferromagnet | |
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| Ferrimagnetism | |
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| Spin waves--elementary magnetic excitations | |
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| Ferromagnetic domains | |
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| High-performance permanent magnets | |
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| Itinerant ferromagnetism | |
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| Giant magnetoresistance | |
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| Superconductivity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Occurence of superconductivity | |
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| Magnetic behaviour and Meissner effect | |
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| Type I and Type II superconductors | |
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| Electromagnetic momentum and the London equation | |
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| The Meissner effect | |
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| Application of thermodynamics | |
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| Cooper pairs and BCS theory | |
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| BCS coherence length | |
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| Persistent current and the superconducting wavefunction | |
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| Flux quantisation | |
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| Josephson tunnelling | |
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| AC Josephson effect | |
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| High-temperature superconductivity | |
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| Appendices | |
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| The variational method with an arbitrary parameter: the H atom | |
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| The hydrogen atom and the Periodic Table | |
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| First and second order perturbation theory | |
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| Introduction to perturbation theory | |
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| First order perturbation theory | |
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| Second order perturbation theory | |
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| Dirac notation | |
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| Bloch's theorem and k - p theory | |
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| Outline solutions to problems | |
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| Index | |