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download Download free PDF View PDF chevron_right Energy Landscapes, Inherent Structures, and Condensed-Matter PhenomenaEnergy Landscapes, Inherent Structures, and Condensed-Matter Phenomena. Frank H.Stillinger 519 pp. Princeton U.P., Princeton, NJ, 2016.
When I was an undergraduate I thought solid state physics (a sub-genre of condensed matter physics) was perhaps the worst subject that any undergraduate could be forced to learn—boring and tedious, “squalid
While the subject of solid state physics is often viewed as dry and tedious this new book presents the topic instead as an exciting exposition of fundamental principles and great intellectual breakthroughs.
This is the standard complete introduction to solid state physics. It has many many chapters on topics we won’t be studying, and goes into great depth on almost everything.
current Oxford syllabus covers this entire book with the exception of Chapter 18 on device physics and Chapter 23 on the Hubbard model (interactionsandmagnetism).
He assumed that the crystal lattice structure of a solid comprising N atoms can be treated as an assembly of 3N distinguishable one-dimensional oscillators (three oscillators for each atom since the atoms of a solid are free to move in three dimensions). From Equation (5.8), the internal energy of a solid made up of N atoms is
1.2 Why Do We Study Condensed Matter Physics? 1.3 Why Solid State Physics?