| Description |
xiii, 386 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Noninteracting electron gas. Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Basic Hamiltonian -- Adiabatic approximation -- Reduced-electron problem -- Second quantization. Bosons -- Fermions -- Fermion operators -- Hartree-Fock approximation. Noninteracting limit -- Hartree-Fock approximation -- Diagrams -- Interacting electron gas. Uniform electron gas -- Hartree-Fock excitation spectrum -- Cohesive energy of metals -- Local magnetic moments in metals. Local moments : phenomenology -- Mean-field solution -- Quenching of local moments : the Kondo problem -- Kondo Hamiltonian -- Why is J negative? -- Scattering and the resistivity minimum -- Electron-impurity scattering amplitudes -- Kondo temperature -- Poor man's scaling -- Appendix : The Schrieffer-Wolff transformation -- Screening and plasmons. Thomas-Fermi screening -- Plasma oscillations -- Linear-response theory -- Dielectric-response function -- Stopping power of a plasma -- Bosonization. Luttinger liquid -- Pair binding : can electrons do it alone? -- Excitation spectrum -- Electron-lattice interactions. Harmonic chain -- Acoustic phonons -- Electron-phonon interaction -- Ultrasonic attenuation -- Electrical conduction --Hydrodynamic limit : phonon drag -- Sound propagation -- Superconductivity. Superconductivity : phenomenology -- Electron-phonon effective interaction -- Model interaction -- Cooper pairs -- Fermi-liquid theory -- Pair amplitude -- BCS ground state -- Pair fluctuations -- Ground state energy -- Critical magnetic field -- Energy gap -- Quasi-particle excitations -- Thermodynamics -- Experimental applications -- Josephson tunneling -- Localization : the strong, the weak, and the defiant. Primer on localization -- Strong localization : the Anderson transition -- Scaling theory -- Weak localization -- Defiant : exceptions to localization -- Quantum phase transitions. Quantum rotor model -- Scaling -- Mean-field solution -- Landau-Ginsburg theory -- Transport properties -- Experiments -- Quantum Hall effect. What is quantum about the Hall effect? -- Landau levels -- Role of disorder -- Currents at the edge -- Laughlin liquid. |
| Subject |
Solid state physics.
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| ISBN |
0813340144 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0813340152 (alk. paper) |
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