1st Edition

Elementary Excitations In Solids

By David Pines Copyright 1999
312 Pages
by CRC Press

312 Pages
by CRC Press

312 Pages
by CRC Press

This text continues to fill the need to communicate the present view of a solid as a system of interacting particles which, under suitable circumstances, behaves like a collection of nearly independent elementary excitations. In addition to introducing basic concepts, the author frequently refers to experimental data. Usually, both the basic theory and the applications discussed deal with the... Read more
Advanced Book Classics , Editor’s Foreword , Preface , Introductory Survey , Phonons , Electrons and Plasmons , Electrons, Plasmons, and Photons in Solids , Electron-Phonon Interaction in Metals , Second Quantization , Linear Response Functions; Kramers-Kronig Relations , The RPA Calculation of the Ground-State Energy

Biography

David Pines