Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids Volume I Structure and Dynamics /

• Main Author: Sólyom, Jenő (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Physics.; Condensed matter.; Condensed Matter Physics.

This book is the first of a three-volume series written by the same author that aims to deliver a comprehensive and self-contained account of the vast field of solid-state physics. It goes far beyond most classic texts in the presentation of the properties of solids and experimentally observed pheno...

Table of Contents:

• The Structure of Condensed Matter
• The Building Blocks of Solids
• Bonding in Solids
• Symmetries of Crystals
• Consequences of Symmetries
• The Structure of Crystals
• Methods of Structure Determination
• The Structure of Real Crystals
• The Structure of Noncrystalline Solids
• Dynamics of Crystal Lattices
• The Quantum Theory of Lattice Vibrations
• The Experimental Study of Phonons
• Magnetically Ordered Systems
• Elementary Excitations in Magnetic Systems.