Condensed Matter Physics (PDF)

Now updated--the leading single-volume introduction to
solid state and soft condensed matter physics

This Second Edition of the unified treatment of condensed
matter physics keeps the best of the first, providing a basic
foundation in the subject while addressing many recent discoveries.
Comprehensive and authoritative, it consolidates the critical
advances of the past fifty years, bringing together an exciting
collection of new and classic topics, dozens of new figures, and
new experimental data.

This updated edition offers a thorough treatment of such basic
topics as band theory, transport theory, and semiconductor physics,
as well as more modern areas such as quasicrystals, dynamics of
phase separation, granular materials, quantum dots, Berry phases,
the quantum Hall effect, and Luttinger liquids. In addition to
careful study of electron dynamics, electronics, and
superconductivity, there is much material drawn from soft matter
physics, including liquid crystals, polymers, and fluid
dynamics.

* Provides frequent comparison of theory and experiment, both when
they agree and when problems are still unsolved

* Incorporates many new images from experiments

* Provides end-of-chapter problems including computational
exercises

* Includes more than fifty data tables and a detailed forty-page
index

* Offers a solutions manual for instructors

Featuring 370 figures and more than 1,000 recent and
historically significant references, this volume serves as a
valuable resource for graduate and undergraduate students in
physics, physics professionals, engineers, applied mathematicians,
materials scientists, and researchers in other fields who want to
learn about the quantum and atomic underpinnings of materials
science from a modern point of view.