Physics of Condensed Matter

Physics of Condensed Matter is designed for a two-semester graduate course on condensed matter physics for students in physics and materials science. While the book offers fundamental ideas and topic areas of condensed matter physics, it also includes many recent topics of interest on which graduate students may choose to do further research. The text can also be used as a one-semester course for advanced undergraduate majors in physics, materials science, solid state chemistry, and electrical engineering, as it offers a breadth of topics applicable to these majors.

The book begins with a clear, coherent picture of simple models of solids and properties, and progresses to more advanced properties and topics later in the book. It offers a comprehensive account of the modern topics in condensed matter physics by including introductory accounts of the areas of research where intense research is underway. The book assumes a working knowledge of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, electricity and magnetism and Green's function formalism (for the second-semester curriculum).

Covers many advanced topics and recent developments in condensed matter physics which are not included in other texts and are hot areas: Spintronics, Heavy fermions, Metallic nanoclusters, Zno, Graphene and graphene-based electronic, Quantum hall effect, High temperature superdonductivity, Nanotechnology

A diverse number of Experimental techniques clearly simplified

End of chapter problems

Chapter 1. Basic Properties of Crystals
Chapter 2. Phonons and Lattice Vibrations
Chapter 3. Free Electron Model
Chapter 4. Nearly Free Electron Model
Chapter 5. Band Structure Calculations
Chapter 6. Static and Transport Properties of Solids
Chapter 7. Electron-Electron Interaction
Chapter 8. Dynamics of Bloch Electrons
Chapter 9. Semiconductors
Chapter 10. Electronics
Chapter 11. Spintronics
Chapter 12. Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism
Chapter 13. Magnetic Ordering 
Chapter 14. Superconductivity
Chapter 15. Heavy Fermions
Chapter 16. Metallic Nanoclusters
Chapter 17. Complex Structures
Chapter 18. Novel Materials
Appendix A. Space Groups and Point Groups
Appendix B. Mossbauer Effect
Appendix C. Introduction to Renormalization Group Approach